Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in chapter 6, page 113 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...Transcendentalism, would have been impossible without a preliminary and liberalizing stirring of the soil.
It was a fascinating moment of release for some of the most brilliant and radical minds of New England .
Its foremost representative in our literature was Ralph Waldo Emerson, as its chief
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