This week's poem, "The Snow-Storm" by the American Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, aspires not only to rugged grandeur but to irony. Emerson knew the English Romantic poets, and I think quite ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American philosopher and poet once said: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” The quote is an exact reflection of Emerson’s ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston. He published many books, including "Nature" (J. Munroe & Co., 1836), "The Conduct of Life" (Ticknor and Fields, 1860) and "English Traits" ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In “Emerson,” composed in 1868 and published posthumously in our ...

A man whose hobby is rummaging through trash from the city’s upscale neighborhoods said Saturday he has found a letter containing an excerpt of a poem written in 1877 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Gary ...

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