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The Last Transcendentalist
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Abstract
When Dwight’s Journal folded, Dwight still had a dozen years of life remaining. With his daily toil behind him, he set about becoming Boston’s most formidable music historian through his contribution to The Memorial History of Boston (1881), an article on “Handel’s Messiah,” and his first major essay on J. S. Bach. Dwight also penned a significant portion of the authoritative History of the Handel and Haydn Society and wrote “Common Sense,” a thirty-page tract in which he railed against the “metaphysical and moral systems [that] spring up like the successive or alternate growths in forests.” “Common Sense” is Dwight’s final apologia on behalf of Transcendentalism. But he was to have one more significant crack at music criticism when he wrote for the Boston Evening Transcript. In the span of nine months, Dwight produced at least fifty-nine columns, many of which showed him at his most perceptive.
Title: The Last Transcendentalist
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Abstract
When Dwight’s Journal folded, Dwight still had a dozen years of life remaining.
With his daily toil behind him, he set about becoming Boston’s most formidable music historian through his contribution to The Memorial History of Boston (1881), an article on “Handel’s Messiah,” and his first major essay on J.
S.
Bach.
Dwight also penned a significant portion of the authoritative History of the Handel and Haydn Society and wrote “Common Sense,” a thirty-page tract in which he railed against the “metaphysical and moral systems [that] spring up like the successive or alternate growths in forests.
” “Common Sense” is Dwight’s final apologia on behalf of Transcendentalism.
But he was to have one more significant crack at music criticism when he wrote for the Boston Evening Transcript.
In the span of nine months, Dwight produced at least fifty-nine columns, many of which showed him at his most perceptive.
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