In the spring of 1871, the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson left Boston to take his ... Cage, sporting a shaved head and a thick beard, summons the controlled mania of his better midcareer ...

Whitman was taken with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson that summer ... And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. Self and soul now merged, suddenly Whitman ...

One year after the start of the Civil War, Emerson, a co-founder of The Atlantic, issued a vehement call to free the slaves—predicting that the world would take notice of the statesman with the ...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a fairly gossamer way of thinking. The movement included a sizable ...

Chris Cillizza ["Worst Week in Washington," Outlook, June 10] chided organized labor for ignoring a crucial lesson about power: "If you come at the king, you best not miss." The quote is ...

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: Give All to Love" will be their ninth film in 18 years and the eighth "essay in film" by writer/director Michael Maglaras. "Ralph Waldo Emerson is undoubtedly not only the ...

James Marcus had long been fascinated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but it wasn’t until he found himself at a low point, both professionally and personally, that he began to see the great ...