Barry M. Andrews - Transcendentalism
Barry Andrews is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister who has written,
preached and taught classes on Emerson, Thoreau and Transcendentalist
spirituality for the past thirty years. He is the author of a number of books,
among them
A Dream too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year (2003) described by a reader as the finest anthology of Emerson's writing
published thus far, as
well as
True
Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year (2006), and
The Spirit Leads: Margaret Fuller in Her Own
Words, (2010). His
most recent work is
Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul,
(2017). The book reflects on the soul and its cultivation - primary
preoccupations of the Transcendentalists in everything they said and did, from
the pursuit of self-reliance to social reform. Andrews believes strongly that
"there is a perennial wisdom in these writers and that they can be helpful
guides for us in the cultivation of our own souls."
