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Nevertheless, two of the most influential early American poets—Henry David Thoreau 1837 and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821—went to Harvard, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a professor here for years. Harvard was the most obvious college for the second great generation of American poets. One of T.S. Eliot’s cousins was Charles Eliot 1853, President of Harvard, and E.E. Cummings’ father was a professor...
...want to pick scripts just to keep me in the status-phere," he says. "You have to take the plunge to expose your true self. If you're true to yourself, you'll turn someone on." Then he quotes Emerson's essay on self-reliance. And then the spiritual guru Eckhart Tolle, whom he's visited in Canada. Then he talks about his meditation practices. And the moment of his enlightenment. And how trying to fill a hole in yourself is pointless, since we don't have holes. And how time, man, time doesn't even exist...
...given that it’s right next to something like Widener Library,” said Sean R. Tracy ’05, who was touring Sever during a recent visit back to campus. “I think anything else on the Yard, with the exception of Emerson, would be better suited for the title.” [SEE EDITOR'S NOTE BELOW...
...Quincy St. is abuzz with preparations for the day's events. In the alley between Emerson Hall and Loeb House, Chez Vous catering is hard at work feeding the governing board members who are meeting in Loeb to confirm Faust as president. What are they eating...
...literary heroes of Transcendentalism, I just can’t get behind this style of all hype and no substance. In a delivery disastrously aimed at the hip-intellectual readership, Susan Cheever’s “American Bloomsbury” reduces Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau to a group of 19th Century Bennifers and Brangelinas. Cheever aims to make “Bloomsbury” a colorful yet historically accurate piece of literary criticism, and her ostensible desire to liberate her subjects from the stuffy realm of academia...