Ralph Waldo Emerson is a giant of American letters ... in the small second-floor study with its smoke-blackened walls and forbidding portraits of Puritan divines, who would have had little ...
To put it another way: he took the check. James Marcus is the author of the new biography “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A ...
He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...