Even those of us who enjoy Ralph Waldo Emerson will apologize for his poetry. His essays—most of ... Reviewing May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), from which I’ve drawn my examples, William ...

The source of Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Etienne de la Boéce.” Plunkett traces Frost’s stylized and idealized expressions of beauty in ...

A dispute that’s been going on for centuries has heated up again as the neighboring towns plan competing celebrations to mark ...

No literary pilgrimage to Massachusetts can be complete without a visit to the Amherst home of one of the most important ...

It’s a long saga, and includes a contentious stretch in the 19th century centered around a Concord monument and a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson ... for the rest of the day as the British troops ...

A great way to spread awareness about the day itself, as well as environmental conservation, is to share powerful Earth ...

I have been made to understand, today marks the convocation of the first cohort of students at the ‘The Bandaranaike Academy ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Amid the potential madness or mindlessness among the demands of an ordinary day, Barbara Mossberg saw ... is Beautiful in its own way.” And Ralph Waldo Emerson’s, “Events, actions arise ...

For 45 years, Longfellow wrote and hosted luminaries, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator. Today, the house is owned and operated by the ...