Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Essential Emerson June 24, 2024
We all have guilty pleasures. Mine is Ralph Waldo Emerson.A proud Southerner, I’m not supposed to like him. His Southern contemporaries William Gilmore Simms and Edgar Allan Poe lambasted him. Later, Southern poet and literary critic Allen Tate calle...
What Ralph Waldo Emerson Knew About Money May 06, 2024
When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a fairly gossamer way of thinking. The movement included a sizable number of activists and reformers, but as theorists the Tran...
The Great American Speculator April 11, 2024
Emerson is a difficult subject for a biography; on one hand, a biographer must compete with his journals. And because some of Emerson's most famous and important essays were in the mode of biography–the strange and wonderful “Representative Men” seri...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Tantalizing, Unsentimental Prophet February 29, 2024
“If an inhabitant of another planet should visit the earth, he would receive, on the whole, a truer notion of human life by attending an Italian opera than he would by reading Emerson’s volumes,” John Jay Chapman remarked. “He would learn from the It...
