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Emerson Ralph Waldo. . 1803--82, US poet, essayist, and transcendentalist How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Growing by three to five vending machines a day, he has succeeded thanks to gumption, drive and a large dollop of Emersonian self-reliance. For instance, James's essay caused literary-minded readers to wonder about the tradition of the essay and of "the American scholar" in the Emersonian sense--and indeed in a journal of that very title. Essentially an Emersonian, he's "under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it; to live by it, whilst [he] wish[es] to take away its life. |
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