On July 4, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) delivered an invited poem at the inauguration of the Battle Monument at Concord, Massachusetts — fifty-one years after the Fourth of July issuing of ...

In 1863’s “Boston Hymn,” Emerson connected the fight against slavery to the virtuous founding ideals of his home city, and of America as a whole. Narrated by God, the poem characterizes ...

I'd like to share Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," a poem he wrote to commemorate the completion of the battle monument, to honor the fallen heroes at the battles of Lexington and Concord in ...

Examiner Ralph Waldo Emerson, by the numbers Let’s give literary thanks to the author of “Self-Reliance,” born May 25, 1803, and buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-In Cold Marble, and in Ideas That Fire the Imagination, the Sage of Concord Lives On. May 24, ... Young Emerson wrote poetry in grade school, ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson first used that memorable phrase to describe the event in his poem “Concord Hymn.” The Revolutionary War “shot,” which turns 250 this year, also marked the start of ...

Concord, Massachusetts, has a vast literary past, being home to talents such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne Apart from their love of the ...

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.; Mr. George Willis Cooke's Bibliography of the Concord Sage Suggests Much Concerning the Evolution of His Thought. POEMS HIS CHIEF LITERARY BEQUEST A New Englander Who Felt as ...

Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker. Dubbed the "Sage of Concord," Emerson discussed his views on individualism and the divine ...

In “Emerson,” composed in 1868 and published posthumously in our December 1904 issue, theologian Henry James Sr. reflected on the distinct impression Ralph Waldo Emerson made upon his readers: ...