In “The Late George Apley,” Ronald Colman, playing the stuffy Bostonian of the film’s title, has on his shelf of classics a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... biography — so, for example, we learn ...

Chapter by chapter we learn that they, too, struggled to make sense of the seemingly senseless: the deaths, long before their time, of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... and their examples of resilience ...

Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought of their times. Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 ... He singles out what you can assume are the best examples of the Concord Sage's idiosyncratic written expression about creativity, such as this gem (#4 ...

self-educated aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mentioned an 1817 visit to this town. At the time of her brief presence, the boy, still a teenager, had already been strongly influenced by her example.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love" will be their ninth film in 18 years and the eighth "essay in film" by writer/director Michael Maglaras. "Ralph Waldo Emerson is undoubtedly not only the ...

Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly The novelist Henry James said that Ralph Waldo Emerson—who was once the country’s beloved essayist-laureate, author of the iconic ...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a fairly gossamer way of thinking. The movement included a sizable ...