In Ralph Waldo Emerson, the town claimed both a ... is that the way to understand Emerson is through reading Emerson." Emerson's highest art was the essay, memorable phrase stacked upon memorable ...

During Harvard University’s commencement week in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson ... Luther King Jr. Though Emerson never ventured into the visual arts, he influenced the paintings of Georgia O ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote most of his works while living ... the events leading up to the Revolutionary War and the role… Art and film historian David Lubin describes many of the images featured ...

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 ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, a personal hero of mine ... It's the voices and the spirits of our poets and creators. Art, in times of cultural and social distress, can truly transform and heal a society.

Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker. Dubbed the "Sage of Concord," Emerson discussed his views on individualism and the divine ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a giant of American letters, but thanks to his insistence on “self-reliance,” his writing has become a go-to reference for those who endorse a particular brand of ...