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Emerson's Transcendental gift.(Books)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960721
Author:West, Woody
The men and women who orbited around Ralph Waldo Emerson's sun in Concord and Boston in the middle years of the 19th century were by almost any definition eccentric, as Carlos Baker characterizes them in this posthumously published study.
Emerson and Henry Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Theodore Parker - as well as the many others in that galaxy who shine less brightly to the present - also had conventional edges, of course. They raised families, capably or carelessly, wrestled with public issues, astutely or awkwardly.
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