Literature
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The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar was Emerson’s speech delivered on August 31, 1837. It was retrieved from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson,…
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Spiritual Laws by Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought,…
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Shakspeare; or The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This essay is excerpted from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Merrill’s English Texts, published in 1907. Transcriber’s Note: Shakspeare is…
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Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance (1841) is an exemplar work in the genre of Transcendentalism, Emerson’s staunch call for individualism. “The great man is…
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Prudence by Ralph Waldo Emerson
What right have I to write ont of the negative sort? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without, not…
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Bacchus by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bacchus was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.BacchusBRING…
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A Child’s Biography by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson for children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson’s book, A Child’s Book of American…
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Air and Angels by John Donne
TWICE or thrice had I loved thee,Before I knew thy face or name;So in a voice, so in a shapeless…
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A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which is my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin…
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A Fever by John Donne
O ! DO not die, for I shall hateAll women so, when thou art gone,That thee I shall not celebrate,When…
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