Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Emerson of Dartmouth sails for England the last of this month...
Oliver Wendell Holmes is engaged upon a life of Emerson...
...Matthew Arnold will arrive today or tomorrow in New York. His first lecture will be in New York, on "Numbers." After giving this lecture he will come to Boston where he will deliver a lecture on "Emerson...
Some new and interesting letters of Carlyle to Emerson have been discovered. They are now in the hands of Prof. Norton the editor of the Carlyle-Emerson Correspondence...
...writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers." He had "the genius of a true poet, his imagination had an epic strength, it was piercing, creative." Two other poets, worse rhymers, though greater men than Wigglesworth were John Rogers and Uriah Oakes ; both of the class...