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Lance Morrow's timely tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson [May 10] may have salvaged singlehanded the man's work from burial. Past generations of students were probably bored stiff with Emerson, but today we would be hard-pressed to find a public school where Emerson hasn't long ago been replaced by tales of streetwise punks-all in the name of relevancy...
...sentence of Ralph Waldo Emerson's is sometimes like that: the mind held at an unexpected angle ... a sudden burst of lovely blue light. It is not a transcendental illumination, exactly. Transcendentalism was a short-lived American moonshine. Emerson's light is brighter. It glows with an eerily sweet intelligence and morning energy. Emerson's sentences make a moral flute music-prose as a form of awakening. They move in a dance of sensual abstractions, small miracles of rhetoric. He had no genius for massive literary architecture; he dealt in the lustrous fragments of his essays...
Hayes was one of the speakers at Harvard's Sanders Theater last week, as Emersonians observed the 100th anniversary of Emerson's death. It has been an important year in the Emerson business. Last fall arrived Gay Wilson Allen's handsome biography, Waldo Emerson (Viking, $25). The Harvard University Press next month will issue a volume of extracts from Emerson's journals, chosen and edited by Harvard's Emerson scholar Joel Porte. The journals, a lifetime accumulation of notebooks containing much of the raw material from which Emerson fashioned his essays and other writings...
What I strive for and to a degree achieve as a craftsman wood turner has its roots in the idea expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This feeling cannot be abandoned...