Transparency in the Jardin des Plantes
ALA, May, 2007, Boston On October 14, 1832, two months before sailing for Europe, Emerson wrote in his journal, The great difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it…
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Escapar de Vinculos Falsos (Spanish translation)
Escapar de vÃnculos falsos* Richard G. Geldard Demasiado a menudo se acusa a Emerson de ser quijotesco. Cuando se le preguntó a la difunta Susan Sontag por qué en sus primeros años de profesión no escribió sobre las figuras…
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Since our re-launch on Feb 5, 2005, the new and improved RWE.org has welcomed 114,000 visitors. Thank you! (Thru Apr. 30) The mission of the RWE Institute is to bring to a global audience the complete works of America’s…
Is Emerson useful?
In his essay “Considerations by the Way” from The Conduct of Life, Emerson had this to say about our ability to help each other with life’s problems: “Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life…
MARCH THIRD
MARCH THIRD A Year With Emerson by Richard Grossman RWE Words For Each Day
On the unity of all things
Richard Wilbur, one of great living Emersonian poets, had this to say about the nature of poetry:  “I think that all poets are sending religious messages, because poetry is, in such great part, the comparison of one thing to another……
Emerson and The Examined Life
Emerson and the Examined Life Address Given by Richard Geldard June 28, 2003 Faneuil Hall, Boston Here in this Cradle of Freedom, our young nation began to frame the language of an authentic independence. The founders, Adams and Jefferson…
Is Emerson Useful?
Emerson himself proposes at the beginning of “Considerations by the Way” that there is very little we can do to help each other. Why? As he says, life has too many shifting moods and so much chance (or fate) in…