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Emerson
Ralph Waldo. . 1803--82, US poet, essayist, and transcendentalist


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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.
Appropriate for the time, it seemed a very Emersonian suggestion that God is nature and nature is God.
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.
 
 
 
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