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Emerson
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Em·er·son  (mr-sn), Ralph Waldo 1803-1882.
American writer, philosopher, and central figure of American transcendentalism. His poems, orations, and especially his essays, such as Nature (1836), are regarded as landmarks in the development of American thought and literary expression.
Emer·soni·an (-sn-n) adj.
Emerson [ˈɛməsən]
n
(Biographies / Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) M, US, WRITING: poet, WRITING: essayist, RELIGION: transcendentalist) Ralph Waldo. (rælf ˈwɔːldəʊ). 1803-82, US poet, essayist, and transcendentalist
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Noun1.Emerson - United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)Emerson - United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Krakauer--whose forensic studies of the Emersonian Man in books such as Into Thin Air and Into the Wild yield so much insight--has turned in a beautiful bit of reporting, documenting Tillman's life with journals and interviews with those close to him.
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Appropriate for the time, it seemed a very Emersonian suggestion that God is nature and nature is God.
DEJA VIEWS; SANTA FE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
In the following passage, he addresses and enacts this notion of what "song" provides and how crucial a role the poet (in the Emersonian sense--the remembrancer) plays in a culture lacking in this sort of music.
"Goodtime" Jesus and Other Sort-of Prose Poems by Harms, James / West Branch
 
 
 
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