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James Marcus

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Thoreau in Love

The writer had a deep bond with his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But he also had a profound connection with Emerson’s wife.

by James Marcus via The New Yorker on October 11, 2021
What Is There to Love About Longfellow?

He was the most revered poet of his day. It’s worth trying to figure out why.

by James Marcus via The New Yorker on June 1, 2020

Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1857.

The Essential Emerson

The latest biography of the great transcendentalist captures the paradoxes of his Yankee mind.

by Allen Mendenhall via Law & Liberty on June 21, 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glad to the Brink of Fear

A new biography reveals how Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Americans a vocabulary to understand themselves in an era even more tempestuous than our own.

by Nicole Penn via American Purpose on March 13, 2024

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