Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations.

The Nation;  October 3, 1994 ;     700+ words ......nor is there any poet of comparable stature...unremittingly preachy as Emerson. There were evenings...with praise for the poet's large soul that...amanuensis of mountains, Emerson spoke up for Mount...and lush--and the poet has just got into gear. Although Emerson provided the ...

AMERICAN SPHINX WHY EMERSON'S BICENTENNIAL IS WORTH CELEBRATING

The Boston Globe;  May 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......marks of doers. But Emerson has nonetheless...ideals: famous as a poet, prophet, sage...taken a copy of Emerson's essays wherever he traveled. Emerson was also the key...autobiography that the Cuban poet-revolutionary Jos...West, thought of Emerson as a kind of alter...ditty in which ...

150 YEARS LATER, EMERSON STILL HAS IMPACT

The Boston Globe;  April 14, 1988 ;     700+ words ......and presented Jesus as a poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson confided that "my views chill...personal God. "I am born a poet," Emerson had written his wife, Lydian...the soul and in matter." In Emerson's view, "Jesus was a poet, 'drawn' by the 'harmony...

CONCORD THROWING YEARLONG PARTY FOR EMERSON'S 200TH MUSEUM EXHIBIT TAKES...

The Boston Globe;  January 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......be replaced. The exhibition, meanwhile, will focus on Emerson's favorite rocking chair, the chest of drawers where...returned to their rightful spots in the study. "This is Emerson at home that we're looking at," Wood said. "This is also Emerson's workplace." It's hard to drive through Concord without ...

TOWN THROWING YEARLONG PARTY FOR EMERSON'S 200TH

The Boston Globe;  January 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......be replaced. The exhibition, meanwhile, will focus on Emerson's favorite rocking chair, the chest of drawers where...returned to their rightful spots in the study. "This is Emerson at home that we're looking at," Wood said. "This is also Emerson's workplace." It's hard to drive through Concord without ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 'Sage of Concord' and leading American thinker,...

AP Worldstream;  May 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......curator of the Concord Museum, across the road from the Emerson house. Children sang for him as he arrived on the train...house. The fields and woods served as a kind of muse for Emerson, an unofficial study, but the actual work took place...struck by the fact that he did all his work at home, says ...

Republican pleasures: Emerson's "Circles," oratory, and the Log Cabin...

ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly);  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......primarily two ways of situating the political orientation of Emerson's writing: the first, and most widely held, proclaims Emerson's status as an architect of democratic individualism...Bercovitch, Stanley Cavell, and George Kateb have argued that Emerson's writing defines American democratic ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-; In Cold Marble, and in Ideas That Fire the...

The Washington Post;  May 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......curator of the Concord Museum, across the road from the Emerson house. "Children sang for him as he arrived on the train...house." The fields and woods served as a kind of muse for Emerson, an unofficial study, but the actual work took place...struck by the fact that he did all his work at home," says ...

Emerson Among the Eccentrics.

The Economist (US);  June 15, 1996 ;     700+ words ......ways the title of this excellent life is misleading; for Emerson was no less eccentric than his friends, merely more circumspect...Although not all were fully-flown Transcendentalists as Emerson was, almost all found the established forms of religion unsatisfactory. As Emerson put it, at about the time ...

Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Critical Commentary, Essay Questions and...

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ......certain basic questions about Emerson's work which critics have...he a man of ideals and a poet, whose virtues rest in his...clear, for example, that Emerson usually exudes a personal...Matthew Arnold's essay on Emerson 70 years ago, for example...stated that "we have not in Emerson a great ...

Liberal Justice and Particular Identity: Cavell, Emerson, Rawls

The Arizona Quarterly;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......in "The Over-Soul," is "the soul of the whole" (386). Emerson's affirmation that each particular individual participates...universality also grounds liberal ideals of secular justice. Emerson's identification with such beliefs makes him, as Stanley...thought. Moreover, these beliefs have a practical aspect. ...

P.H. EMERSON PUT POETRY INTO PHOTOGRAPHY HE HELPED REVOLUTIONIZE HOW...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  April 8, 2007 ;     436 words ......painters of Victorian England. Emerson called for an entirely new...great refiner, the poor man's poet and painter. Wandering through...fall under the subtle spell of Emerson's images, with their somber...the first true photographer-poet. THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW: P.H. EMERSON AND ...

MEDITATING ON A TRANSCENDENTALIST MANY IN RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S HOMETOWN...

The Boston Globe;  May 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ......famous residents, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But even with the flurry of...in honor of the philosopher, poet, and essayist, it was clear...All I know about Ralph Waldo Emerson is there's a house down the...drive by it all the time." Emerson is considered by many to be...obstacles put before him, said ...

The economics of loss: Emerson's "Threnody".(Critical Essay)

ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly);  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......typifies the American tendency toward cultural parricide is Emerson, whose philosophy insists on self-reliance, rejection...and] dead bible societ[ies] ( Self-Reliance 262-63), Emerson rejects what he calls the reflex standard of duties to...alternative to a society structured by patrilineal continuity, ...

Emerson

Canadian Encyclopedia;      267 words ......Lyon Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Emerson Author: D.M. Lyon Emerson, Man, Town, pop 655 (2001c), 737 (1996c...Winnipeg and was named after the American poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. When settlement began in 1874, the...Wisconsin businessmen sought to make Emerson a railway ...