What Would Emerson Say?
Thanks primarily to Robert Richardson’s pathbreaking 1995 biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson, The Mind on Fire) we have come to know Emerson at last as his contemporaries, family, and friends actually knew him. For them, he was not “the plaster sage of Concord.” He was an engaged and activist citizen, who took time from … Continue reading What Would Emerson Say?