He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson ... called on Emerson and discussed the book. Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson ... the town. Emerson was living in Concord in 1837, when he drafted new words to the tune of a well-known Protestant hymn, "Old Hundredth." Emerson's poem, first sung at ...