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Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism
Books & the Arts / An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was immersive and intimate all at once. David B. Hobbs Even those of ...
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"The Shot Heard Round the World"
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 ...
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Whitman, Emerson, and 19th Century Literary America
He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...