. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . :>^if4^S^^*^^i¥^^^^I^^^^ RALPH WALDO EMEKSON THE LIBERATOR OF AMERICAN O classify Emerson is a matter of no small difficulty. He was aphilosopher, he was an essayist, he was a poet—all three so eminentlythat scarcely two of his friends would agree to which class he mostOliver Wendell Holmes asks: belonged. Where in the realm of thought whose air is songDoes he the Buddha of the west belong ?He seems a winged Franklin sweetly wise,Born to unlock the secret of the skies. But whatever he d
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . :>^if4^S^^*^^i¥^^^^I^^^^ RALPH WALDO EMEKSON THE LIBERATOR OF AMERICAN O classify Emerson is a matter of no small difficulty. He was aphilosopher, he was an essayist, he was a poet—all three so eminentlythat scarcely two of his friends would agree to which class he mostOliver Wendell Holmes asks: belonged. Where in the realm of thought whose air is songDoes he the Buddha of the west belong ?He seems a winged Franklin sweetly wise,Born to unlock the secret of the skies. But whatever he did was done with a poetic touch. Philosophy, essay or song, itwas all pregnant with the spirit of Whatever else he was Emerson waspre-eminently a poet. It was with this golden key that he unlocked the chambers oforiginal thought, that liberated American letters. Until Emerson came, American authors had little independence. James RussellLowell declares, We were socially and intellectually bound to English thought,until Emerson cut the cable and gave us a chance at the dangers and glories of bluewaters. He was our first optimistic writer. Before his day, Puritan t
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