Ralph Waldo Emerson's
     Old Friends Biographies

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• Socrates
   (469-399 B.C., Greek philosopher of Athens)

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• Plato

  Plato
  427?-347 B.C.
  
  The Complete Works of Plato

  Plato
  427?-347 B.C.
  
  The Complete Works of Plato

  
  (427?-347 B.C., Greek philosopher

• The Plato Society

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• Aristotle
  ( 384-322 B.C., Greek philosopher

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• Montaigne
  Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  (1533-1592) French courtier and author

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• Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  (1564-1616) English poet, dramatist, and actor

• The Shakespeare Society

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• Swedenborg
  (1688-1772) Swedish philosopher

• The Swedenborg Society

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• Goethe
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  (1749-1832) German poet, novelist, playwright and natural philosopher

• The Goethe Society of North America

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• Wordsworth
  William Wordsworth
  (1770-1850) British poet

• The Wordsworth Trust

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• Coleridge
  (1772-1834) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  English lyrical poet,  critic, and philosopher

• The Friends of Coleridge (society)

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• Carlyle
  (1795-1881)  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish historian and essayist

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• Hawthorne                                    
  (1804-1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American author and short story writer

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• Margaret Fuller
  (1810-1850) The first female foreign correspondent and the first book review editor in the U.S.A.

• The Margaret Fuller Society

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• Henry David Thoreau

  Henry D. Thoreau
  1817-1862
  
  The Thoreau Society

  The Thoreau Reader

  Henry D. Thoreau
  1817-1862
  
  The Thoreau Society

  The Thoreau Reader

  
  (1817- 1862) American essayist, poet, 
  and practical philosopher

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• Whitman
  (1819-1892) Walt Whitman
  American poet, journalist and essayist
     Whitman Project