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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Our first international star Three new books released in year of intellectual's 200th birthday

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20030619
Author:Noel Perrin

NonFiction

Emerson

By Lawrence Buell

Harvard, $29.95

Understanding Emerson

By Kenneth S. Sacks

Princeton, $29.95

A year with Emerson

Edited By Richard L. Grossman

Godine, $26.95

There are several reasons why there should be three new Emerson books this year, the simplest being 2003 is an anniversary year-- Emerson was born in 1803.

A more interesting reason derives from the national inferiority complex we then had. In Emerson's day, a rich American might send his son to England to be polished; no rich Englishman sent his son to Harvard or Yale. In 1820, the English critic Sydney Smith probably ...

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