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: ...

In our first issue in November 1857, the magazine featured verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and the great essayist and father of transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

IN HIS BIOGRAPHY of Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Mind on Fire, Robert D. Richardson writes “the past can be understood only if we imagine each moment of it as present, with ourselves as the actors ...

Where's Waldo Trump Quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson (And By Extension Paraphrases Omar from The Wire) Saturday’s tweets have more of a “Mad King” quality than usual.

I also read some of Tom’s poems to the audience of 40 to 50 – and recounted stories of my association with him. Afterward, Sandy told me that Ralph Waldo Emerson was his grandfather.

An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was ...

I reveled in the reading of Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Already a subscriber? Log in Help fund Monitor journalism for $11/ month ...

On Being Asked During a National Crisis to Write a Poem in Celebration of the Bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson Caught up in a metaphorical swoon by the oversoul in his head War is on its last ...

Examiner Ralph Waldo Emerson, by the numbers Let’s give literary thanks to the author of “Self-Reliance,” born May 25, 1803, and buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 15 quotes on his birthday Emerson would be 209 years old on May 25th. Here are 15 of his more memorable aphorisms.