In “The Late George Apley,” Ronald Colman, playing the stuffy Bostonian of the film’s title, has on his shelf of classics a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays. By the late 19th century the ...
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> 47 — Years that Emerson, “The Sage of Concord,” lived in Bush, now a National Historic Landmark “And fired the shot heard round the world” — The best-known line of Emerson’s poem “Concord Hymn,” ...
On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...
Don't say too much; don't say too little. That's what it takes to be a very good writer (That's #1). A hundred or so years ago, Emerson figured that out. Though he didn't publish an advice book for ...
What’s your relationship to nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau wrestled mightily with that question while wandering the Massachusetts woods in the mid-1800s. Now, a walking play is ...
Context has long been a critical determiner of methodologies for literary studies, granting scholars the tools to make objective claims about a text’s political or economic relation to the situation ...
Wonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger ...
A funny thing can happen when you read Ralph Waldo Emerson while listening to Taylor Swift. I’d never associated one with the other, even when I’d crack open “Self-Reliance” and crank up “Evermore” — ...
Novelized accounts of historical figures’ lives are hugely popular. But do we really want to draw back the curtain on history and find people talking and acting the way we do? By Megan Marshall In ...
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