TOWN THROWING YEARLONG PARTY FOR EMERSON'S 200TH

The Boston Globe;  January 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......cracked in the seven decades since Emerson's study was removed - shutters, furniture...museum will open an exhibition, "Emerson and His Study: An Inside Look," that allows...distinguished Emerson retiring to his study. "Emerson is probably the greatest thinker...

Lawrence Buell, Emerson: a National Icon for a Post National Age.(Book...

American Studies International;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Following that, Buell uses a case study of Emerson's involvement in the abolitionist...beginning with a prolonged study of the relationship between Emerson and his most famous follower...However, in a book devoted to a study of Emerson's lifework, and not his legacy...

Consuming text: transubstantiation and ingestion in the interpretation of...

Criticism;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......buoyant. (5) Burke, rather than challenging the bottling of Emerson or the narcotic effect of Nature, defends the troping...subject of both of these last sentences--the it --is Emerson's Nature. That piece of writing both reads well and makes...are closely related. In either case, the aspects of the ...

Hidden truths in Emerson

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  October 2, 2008 ;     577 words ......politicians in tiny Emerson seem to have forgotten...dust-up involves a study of a controversial...development plan. The study essentially calls...voters this bad news, Emerson's council stamped...remembered that Emerson is a town in America...Hoffman leaked the study to two members ...

Our first globalist? A reinterpretation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's...

The Washington Times;  July 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ......thinker rather than a doer, scholar rather than activist, Emerson was reluctant to enter the political fray. Emersonian Self-Reliance held that action must proceed from independently...dampened opportunities for personal growth. Furthermore, Emerson's biases were inherited rather than cultivated. This ...

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

ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly);  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......origins of the spirit of (social) reform that often animate Emerson's lectures and writing (see also Francis, Rose, Cayton). The problem with these civic recuperations of Emerson, however, is that they have difficulty articulating the aesthetic side of Emerson's work. At the risk of trying to pass ...

Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  October 1, 1996 ;     239 words ......Portrait, by Carlos Baker. When Carlos Baker began work on Emerson Among the Eccentrics in the early 1970's, he prepared...book: "To write what will amount to a new biography of Emerson, developed by reference to some of his leading friendships...Hawthorne, Theodore Parker, Walt Whitman, Mary Moody ...

Emerson's Transcendental gift.(Books)

The Washington Times;  July 21, 1996 ;     700+ words ......orbited around Ralph Waldo Emerson's sun in Concord and Boston...this posthumously published study. Emerson and Henry Thoreau, Bronson...s book is the second major study of his subject in recent years...Richardson Jr.'s tremendous Emerson: The Mind on Fire. ) The author...

EMERSON WEIGHS CONFLICTING DATA ON PLAN FOR PARK

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  October 23, 1997 ;     687 words ......open space. One study, commissioned by...Donato, found that Emerson would spend more...owners. The second study, authorized by the...values specific to Emerson. "Your study is not based on Emerson -- it's based on...a fiscal impact study, so he did not include...house complex ...

Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Poet

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ...Emerson, Ralph Waldo Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Poet: Emerson's main notions about poetry are to be...in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man...cannot perform-their expression of self. Emerson insists that the poet is not fanciful...into words. The real poem, ...

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

Monarch Notes;      700+ words ......Critical Commentary There are certain basic questions about Emerson's work which critics have disagreed upon, from the time...tenor of his thought. It is clear, for example, that Emerson usually exudes a personal dynamism which has renewed...self? How is he to discover the life of the spirit? What ...

HARD WORK PAYS OFF IN EMERSON AUDITION

Post-Tribune (IN);  August 14, 1998 ;     356 words ......Emerson, said he works with a waiting list of students at Emerson. "I think there is a difference in their behavior and...school," Horne said. "We pull together as a family." Emerson has the highest ISTEP test scores in the district. Taneesha Johnson, 15, a sophomore at Emerson, said it was just ...

Emerson's life a spiritual one

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  February 19, 2005 ;     596 words ......Unitarian minister Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "'What am I?' and...unlike; many, yet one. I would study, I would know, I would admire...human spirit in all ages." (Emerson, divinity school address) Emerson sought and found the mystical...everything that crossed his vision. Emerson is the ...

Emerson's eloquence endures and echoes

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......compliances and imitations of city society." In Ralph Waldo Emerson, the town claimed both a loyal neighbor and a spokesman...colossus among the tidier memorials in Sleepy Hollow. Emerson moved to Concord in 1834 and was soon invited to be keynote...curator of the Concord Museum, across the road from the ...

Mrs. Emerson, I presume? A novelist blends fact with fiction to tell the...

The Christian Science Monitor;  June 21, 2005 ;     584 words ......left behind by the principal actors in her drama. The Emersons set up housekeeping in Concord, Mass., to create a country...a center of refinement and transcendent thought. Emerson was already a popular lecturer and noted writer. Lidian...philosophy and religion. A matched pair, it would seem. Yet ...