“The American Scholar” is one of R.W. Emerson’s most famous essays. Originally, it was an address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Cambridge (Mass.), but its importance, retrospectively, has seemed to some to far outweigh its occasional purpose. It has been called “The Declaration of Independence of American Letters.” What struck me, however, as [...]
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