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Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is the 1885 biography of the Concord philosopher by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), written for the American Men of Letters series. Holmes and Emerson were Harvard contemporaries and fellow members of the Saturday Club, the famous Boston dining circle that also included Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Agassiz, and Holmes writes from four decades of personal acquaintance. The biography covers Emerson's ministry and resignation, the Transcendentalist years, the essays and poems, the lecturing career, and the long Concord old age, with Holmes's own shrewd assessments of Emerson's thought from the standpoint of a scientific rationalist who admired the man while keeping a sceptic's distance from Transcendentalism. The book remains a valuable first-hand portrait by one major American writer of another.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.

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First published
1884
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
334
Language
English
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