I keep looking for references to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who developed our general notion of "individualism," a notion you can have trouble finding in earlier, foundational (like that of the Greeks ...

James Marcus had long been fascinated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but it wasn’t until he found himself at a low point, both professionally and personally, that he began to see the great ...

To be honest, J.H., I can’t determine exactly when this rumor began, but I can trace it at least to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who in 1860 wrote: “We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are ...

The observances this year of the two-hundredth anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth, in 1803, have been measured but widespread: conferences were scheduled in the great man’s adopted ...