When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a ...

Today, many people do not know Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of those who do, consider him at best a 19th-century transcendentalist or, at worst, the Dale Carnegie of belles lettres. But Emerson ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911 ... diverse threads into the philosophical tradition known as American Transcendentalism. Emerson's companions in the movement included Jones Very, the Peabody sisters ...

Concord, Massachusetts, has a vast literary past, being home to talents such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ... the home of Emerson, poet and leading exponent of New England transcendentalism, would ...