Word: emerson
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Bray, George August, Jr. of 706 Ash Street, Winnetka; New Trier High, Winnetka. Calhamer, Allan Brian of 518 North Spring Street, La Grange; Lyons Township High. Emerson, Kenneth of 806 West Main Street, Urbans: Urbana High. Finch, Frank Hershel, Jr. of 504 West Michigan Avenue, Urbana: University High, Urbana...
...Emerson. They have presented the essential facts of Emerson's life, and a good deal of colorful detail, upon which critics and biographers have speculated ever since. Some of the resulting literary studies, of which the work of Van Wyck Brooks is the masterpiece, are among the most engaging criticism in English...
...greatest limitation of Rusk's book is its lack of enthusiasm and feeling. It shows Emerson as far more practical, sometimes calculating, and much less steadily conscious of his purpose in life than has been believed. One great discovery concealed or slurred over by previous biographers is that much of Emerson's life was dull. Moreover, Rusk admits that he has been greatly attracted by one aspect of Emerson-his struggle "to keep his little area of personal freedom safe from encroachment." The emphasis is consequently upon his independence, his reserve with family and friends, his ties with...
Rusk goes over the tedium and labor of Emerson's lectures with great detail. A reader not familiar with Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...
...many of the facts in the book are new that no such characterization can do it justice. Almost every page of this biography yields some new or little-known fact about Emerson or his contemporaries, and if the first result is to make his life seem slow and somewhat sad, the final one is likely to make his career seem even more extraordinary and his achievement even greater...