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The Draft of Time
On Ralph Waldo Emerson, his childhood in Boston, and his thoughts on mortality.
by
James Marcus
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
September 2, 2025
How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire
High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights.
by
James Marcus
via
The New Yorker
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on
June 2, 2025
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
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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
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on
June 1, 2020
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Glad to the Brink of Fear
: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Marcus
2024
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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
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
