But self-help books cannot replace support systems or ... In 19th-century America, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy of self-reliance was buttressed by the period’s many revolutions, which ...

But Emerson read the book and wrote a laudatory letter to Whitman ... Nathaniel Hawthorne, and, of course, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911 ... Whitman called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing the literary ...

During Harvard University’s commencement week in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson took ... in 1862, Emerson helped champion Walden and secure the book and its author vaunted positions in the pantheon ...

I wasn’t preparing to write a book.” It took a nudge from Marcus’s now-agent for him to embark on the project that became “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” ...

The third and last lecture of the course will be delivered at the Atheneum on Tuesday evening. Subject -- "Books and Culture." Advertisement ...

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 ...