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 ...

In “Emerson,” composed in 1868 and published posthumously in our December 1904 issue, theologian Henry James Sr. reflected on the distinct impression Ralph Waldo Emerson made upon his readers: ...

"Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love" is scheduled to be released in May 2023. This film will capture the essence of Emerson as the deeply original and radical thinker he was. Ralph Waldo ...

Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker. Dubbed the "Sage of Concord," Emerson discussed his views on individualism and the divine ...

The issue's 128 pages featured verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and the great essayist and father of transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In 1863’s “ Boston Hymn ,” Emerson connected the fight against slavery to the virtuous founding ideals of his home city, and of America as a whole. Narrated by God, the poem characterizes abolitionism ...