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A number of the vitalist movements important for Miller are here presented: the American transcendentalists Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and later Havelock Ellis, the European inspiration from Bergson and Elie Faure.
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Eric D. Lehman: Big Sur and Walden: Henry Miller’s Practical Transcendentalism in Henry Miller – New Perspectives, 2015. In the quote there is a reference to Arnold Smithline: Henry Miller and the Transcendental Spirit in Emerson Society Quarterly 2, 1966.
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In Nietzsche and Emerson – An Elective Affinity (1992) George J. Stack gives a number of examples of Nietzsche influenced by Emerson.
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Complete Writings…, vol. 1, p. 33ff.
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See the introduction to Tropic of Cancer, Chap. 17.
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Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal, vol. 9 (2012).
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Jensen, F. (2019). The Roots of Vitalism. In: Henry Miller and Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33165-8_4
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