The Violet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Story type: LiteratureBY ELLEN LOUISA TUCKERWhy lingerest thou, pale violet, to see the dying year; Are Autumn’s blasts fit music for thee, fragile on …
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Story type: EssayThis address was delivered at Cambridge in 1837, before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a college fraternity compo …
Shakespeare; Or, The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Story type: EssaySHAKSPEARE;[525] OR, THE POET[Transcriber’s Note: Shakspeare is spelled as “Shakspeare” as well as “Shakespeare” in this essay. The o …