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In “Emerson,” composed in 1868 and published posthumously in our December 1904 issue, theologian Henry James Sr. reflected on the distinct impression Ralph Waldo Emerson made upon his readers ...
"Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love" will be their ninth film in 18 years and the eighth "essay in film" by writer/director Michael Maglaras. "Ralph Waldo Emerson is undoubtedly not only the ...
A man whose hobby is rummaging through trash from the city’s upscale neighborhoods said Saturday he has found a letter containing an excerpt of a poem written in 1877 by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo ... away. Emerson dealt with his grief by writing in his journals ("Will the eye that was closed on Tuesday ever beam again in the fullness of love on me?
What is clear is that in 1843, four years after ridiculing the love offering that ... A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” In the past fifty years, his poems have taken many audacious forms.
His essays are as wild as poems. Nearly every American writer since the 1840s has had to deal with Emerson, whether to meditate on, extol, or fiercely challenge, or even to call him crazy.
During Harvard University’s commencement week in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson took the podium at ... introduce readers to new moral truths. “We love the poet, the inventor, who in any form ...