In “The Late George Apley,” Ronald Colman, playing the stuffy Bostonian of the film’s title, has on his shelf of classics a collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays. By the late 19th century the ...

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> 47 — Years that Emerson, “The Sage of Concord,” lived in Bush, now a National Historic Landmark “And fired the shot heard round the world” — The best-known line of Emerson’s poem “Concord Hymn,” ...

Don't say too much; don't say too little. That's what it takes to be a very good writer (That's #1). A hundred or so years ago, Emerson figured that out. Though he didn't publish an advice book for ...

What’s your relationship to nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau wrestled mightily with that question while wandering the Massachusetts woods in the mid-1800s. Now, a walking play is ...

Context has long been a critical determiner of methodologies for literary studies, granting scholars the tools to make objective claims about a text’s political or economic relation to the situation ...

A funny thing can happen when you read Ralph Waldo Emerson while listening to Taylor Swift. I’d never associated one with the other, even when I’d crack open “Self-Reliance” and crank up “Evermore” — ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s ...