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Emerson Among the Eccentrics.
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The Economist (US)
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June 15, 1996
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1996 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The lives of the writers, thinkers and hangers-on who surrounded Ralph Waldo Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, have been dissected so much that the group's central figure is often easy to lose sight of Even in a work like this, which seeks to put Emerson firmly in his social circle, he towers effortlessly above it: this "celestial," this "beacon," this "god of my idolatry", as Louisa May Alcott called him.
The aim of the Concord group was nothing less than the creation of a culture for a brand-new America. And though Emerson was never convinced that his rambunctious young country had found a voice as eloquent, free and sweeping as it deserved, his followers never doubted ...
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