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

Noonan also won Sundance’s Waldo Salt screenwriting award for the script.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 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

“I want you to show me right now where in the dress code it says anything about armbands,” she tells Principal Trask, slapping the Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High Handbook hard on the desk.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée