Arts & Letters Daily search results for “emerson” (20)
2012-08-18 | Naturalist, philosopher, oddball - Thoreau wrote prodigiously but remains inscrutable. "I love Henry," Emerson said, "but I cannot like him" more »
2021-08-10 | In his contempt for cheap moralism, Ralph Waldo Emerson was the mirror opposite of today’s preening leftist intellectuals more »
2019-06-25 | Thoreau was a fault-finder; Emerson, a showoff. They wanted to be friends, but, as Emerson put it, “Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables” more »
2012-12-28 | The struggle for Harold Bloom's soul. On one side, Emerson, apostle of the self. On the other, Freud, the pessimist. The battle has been long and fruitful more »
2010-01-01 | Charles Dickens was for Emerson "too consummate an artist to have a thread of nature left. He daunts me! I have not the key" more »
2014-07-25 | He mingled with Emerson and Thoreau, enjoyed wine and cigars with Trollope, Wilde, and Twain. Julian Hawthorne was the Zelig of his time more »
2015-01-10 | Time to close the book on Ralph Waldo Emerson. Neither practical nor wise, and hardly original or consistent, he was, at best, an aphorist more »
2010-01-01 | The august tutelage of Emerson, Thoreau, and her father made Louisa May Alcott acutely conscious of unseen, spiritual realities. Still, she could play them for laughs more »
2017-01-18 | From Emerson and Carlyle to Lamarck and Darwin, thinkers have debated agency. But where does debating the free will of squirrels, rocks, and robots get us? more »
2013-06-14 | 'To be great is to be misunderstood,' said Emerson, who is now misunderstood as a maker of proverbs, a purveyor of fortune-cookie aphorisms more »
2012-08-20 | If solitude doesn't lead us back to companionship, then where does it lead? Emerson and Thoreau knew well "the dangers of forest thinking" more »
2012-04-28 | The struggle for Harold Bloom's soul. On one side, Emerson, apostle of the self. On the other, Freud, the pessimist. The battle has been long and fruitful more »
2010-01-01 | All the uses of nature admit of being summed in one, which yields the activity of man an infinite scope. Yep. Another pointless koan from Ralph Waldo Emerson more »
2015-09-28 | Consider the blurb. What began with a note from Emerson to Whitman has become pervasive — even though there's little evidence that blurbs sell any books more »
2021-10-13 | He was a shy college graduate; she was a neurotic 38-year-old mother of two. What was there between Henry Thoreau and Lidian Emerson? more »
2021-11-23 | The individualism of Emerson and Thoreau was not a precursor of libertarianism. But their outlooks bear remarkable resemblances more »
2021-11-11 | “I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me,” boasted Emerson, who was extremely dependent on his family more »
2022-01-08 | “As inventive and inspiring as Emerson and Thoreau often were, their zeal for ‘individual freedom’ has curdled into a socially destructive force” more »
2015-09-01 | The obsolescence of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The verse of the poet who was obsessed with new forms now seem out of date. He wanted it that way more »
2011-01-01 | When the Civil War began, the literati - Whitman, Emerson, Dickinson, Melville - erupted in support of the Union cause. But patriotic fervor soon gave way to skepticism, confusion, and moral ambivalence more »