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

Victor’s screenplay earned her the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where the film had its premiere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

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

The last letter ever received from Everett Ruess, to his brother, Waldo, dated November 11,1934 What Everett Ruess was after was beauty, and he conceived beauty in pretty romantic terms.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer