PBS7 年
Whitman, Emerson, and 19th Century Literary America
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy ... Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing the literary lion's counsel, Whitman was adamant about ...
PBS5 年
"The Shot Heard Round the World"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated ... to the tune of a well-known Protestant hymn, "Old Hundredth." Emerson's poem, first sung at the dedication of a battle monument during ...