waldo

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Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s standards of literary criticism, like his philosophy, are focused on realism, felt experience and humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

“Now, I completely know what it means. Waldo, this protagonist, her voice — I was waking up in the middle of the night thinking of this character.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

Dear Diary, For the past month, we have been studying different American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Tho- reau.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers