Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Wide World"
"Make your own Bible. Select & Collect all those words & sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of a trumpet out of Shakespear [sic], Seneca, Moses, John, & Paul."
Sometimes my craving for an author rivals my craving for chocolate. And so it was, during the dog days of summer, that I craved Emerson’s language, his transcendental thought, his grounding spiritualism.1
Rereading Emerson’s writing has been an exercise in revisiting my own intellectual history. I have turned to Emerson at every stage of my education. My …
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