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`Emerson,' by Lawrence Buell; Harvard/Belknap.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20030716
Author:Wilson, Frank
Byline: Frank Wilson
In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter Ellen took a trip to Egypt. Upon their return, a joke started making the rounds of Boston: "What did the Sphinx say to Emerson?
"You're another."
The man who had written in his most famous essay, "Self-Reliance," that "to be great is to be misunderstood" was apparently amused. He made a point of recording the joke in his journal.
Attempts at solving the riddle that was Emerson continue unabated, as these two fascinating books amply demonstrate. That he remains elusive is a credit to just how ...
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