Primary Works

Many articles in various magazines like The Christian Examiner. His essay on Coleridge, 1833, is considered to be the first American expression of the Kantian idealism which later became famous as Transcendentalism.

Prose Writers of Germany, 1848; Recent Inquiries in Theology, 1860; Reason In Religion, 1865; The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition, 1870; Ways of the Spirit, 1877; Atheism in Philosophy, 1884; Hours with German Classics, 1887; Martin Luther and Other Essays, 1888.

Edited and annotated a translation of Goethe's Faust, 1882 and edited and revised a translation of Goethe's Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy, 1884.

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Delano, Sterling F. "A Rediscovered Transcendental Poem by Frederick Hedge." American Transcendental Quarterly 29 (1976): 35-36.

Fisher, Mathew. "Emerson Remembered: Nine Letters by Frederic Henry Hedge." Studies in the American Renaissance (1989): 313-328.

Grady, Charles W. "A Conservative Transcendentalist: The Early Years (1805-1835) of Frederic Henry Hedge." Studies in the American Renaissance (1983): 57-87.

Hamlin, Cyrus. "Transplanting German Idealism to American Culture: F. H. Hedge, W. T. Harris, C. T. Brooks." Translating Literatures, Translating Cultures: New Vistas and Approaches in Literary Studies. Eds. Kurt Mueller-Vollmer and Michael Irmscher. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998. 107-24.

LeBeau, Bryan F. "Frederic Henry Hedge and the 'Eminent Orthodox Divines' of American Transcendentalism." American Transcendental Quarterly 57 (Jul 1985): 3-14.

- - -. Frederic Henry Hedge: Nineteenth Century American Transcendentalist. Pickwick Publications, 1985.

- - -. "Frederic Henry Hedge, 1835-1890: Toward 'Reason in Religion'." Studies in the American Renaissance (1988): 253-70.

Litton, Alfred G. "The Development of the Mind and the Role of the Scholar in the Early Works of Frederic Henry Hedge." Studies in the American Renaissance (1989): 95-114.

Myerson, Joel. "Frederic Henry Hedge and the Failure of Transcendentalism." Harvard Library Bulletin 23 (1975): 396-410.

Neufeldt, Leonard. "Frederic Henry Hedge." The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. Ed. Joel Myerson. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of America, 1984. 189-94.

Scharnhorst, Gary, and Ronald Tobias. "Emerson's Earliest Extant Letter to Frederic Henry Hedge." American Literature 52.4 (Jan 1981): 639-42.

Woodall, Guy R. "The Record of a Friendship: The Letters: Convers Francis to Frederic Henry Hedge in Bangor and Providence, 1835-1850." Studies in the American Renaissance (1991): 1-57.

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