Experience

by

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson is the author of “Experience” as well as its narrator, since the essay is written in the first person. By the time he wrote “Experience,” Emerson was a well-known and well-respected intellectual and philosopher… read analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waldo Emerson

Waldo Emerson was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s son. He died at the age of five in 1842, lost to scarlet fever. In a long poem written to his memory, “Threnody,” Emerson called Waldo “the hyacinthine… read analysis of Waldo Emerson