Ralph Waldo EmersonHoughton Mifflin, 1915 - 379 pages Definitive look at the life and times of "the sage of Concord" traces the development of Emerson's often-controversial ideas and their expression, with criticisms of his early transcendentalist works, poetry, and later writings. |
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