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…
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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…
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