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He thought it happier to be dead, / To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

—Beauty

Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–82, American poet and essayist, b. Boston. Through his essays, poems, and lectures, Emerson established himself as a leading spokesman of transcendentalism and as a major figure in American literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)

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WORKS: Essays and English Traits
Epitomal works demonstrate the genius of the father of the American Renaissance. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. V.; Bartlett’s Emerson Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 19398 to 21577
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE: Bacchus (OBEV); Borrowing: From the French (YBAV); Boston Hymn (HC); Brahma (AmAnth); Brahma (HC); Brahma (OBEV); Brahma (YBAV); Character (AmAnth); Concord Hymn (AmAnth); Concord Hymn (HC); Concord Hymn (YBAV); Days (AmAnth); Days (HC); Days (YBAV); Each and All (AmAnth); Fable (YBAV); Forbearance (AmAnth); Forerunners (AmAnth); Give All to Love (HC); Give All to Love (OBEV); Good-Bye (HC); Heri, Cras, Hodie (YBAV); Humble-Bee (YBAV); Merlin (AmAnth); Ode to Beauty (OBMV); Ode (AmAnth); Poet (YBAV); Problem (YBAV); Rhodora (YBAV); Sacrifice (YBAV); Shakespeare (YBAV); Terminus (AmAnth); The Apology (HC); The Earth (AmAnth); The Humble-Bee (AmAnth); The Humble-Bee (HC); The Problem (AmAnth); The Problem (HC); The Rhodora (AmAnth); The Snow-Storm (AmAnth); The Test (AmAnth); Threnody (AmAnth); To Eva (YBAV); Uriel (OBEV); Waves (AmAnth); Woodnotes (HC); From “Woodnotes” (AmAnth); Worship (OBMV);
WRITINGS ABOUT EMERSON: “Emerson”
Chapter by Paul Elmer More with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.

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