Quote of the day by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights that true success is measured not by avoiding failure but by rising each ...

I was surprised to see Sandy Emerson and his wife, Jeanne, at The Well-Read Moose’s recent celebration of National Poetry Month. I didn’t realize the former Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce manager ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In “Emerson,” composed in 1868 and published posthumously in our ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston. He published many books, including "Nature" (J. Munroe & Co., 1836), "The Conduct of Life" (Ticknor and Fields, 1860) and "English Traits" ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist, poet, and founder of The Atlantic. He was a leading figure in the transcendentalist movement and a noted advocate of individualism and emancipation. A year into ...

> 47 — Years that Emerson, “The Sage of Concord,” lived in Bush, now a National Historic Landmark “And fired the shot heard round the world” — The best-known line of Emerson’s poem “Concord Hymn,” ...