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Anonymous Wed Jan 16 09:55:08 2013 No.3363797 [View]
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Seriously? What is the deal with this guy? His prose is terrible; it has no cohesiveness, that is , it feels like an unstoppable chain of afforisms with no relation among them. WHat is you opinion, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 20:29:59 2012 No.3080465 [View] File: 36 KB, 375x600, Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_ca1857_retouched.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What can I expect from this guy, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 12 22:02:26 2012 No.2897219 [View] File: 36 KB, 375x600, 375px-Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_ca1857_retouched.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2897129 I beg your pardon?

Anonymous Tue Jul 10 08:47:27 2012 No.2796465 [View]
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I read this waldo guy and re-read him, but I find it hard to hold my attention on his convoluted and laborious prose. Granted he has a few inspirational lines here and there, but as a whole it surmounts to verbal diarrhea and I find it hard to delineate a proper 'philosophy' from said diarrhea, at best I can extract some inspirational prattle here and there.

Should I try harder? or just give up and move on to henry david thoreau? Any essays in particular I should read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 9 02:21:48 2012 No.2793188 [View] File: 36 KB, 375x600, 375px-Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_ca1857_retouched.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2793178 No, I'm pretty sure Faulkner couldn't have been religious. That would be preposterous.

Anonymous Sat Dec 17 07:58:29 2011 No.2260659 [View]
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Feeling transcendent, and have read that this man wrote brilliant transcendental essays.

Which of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays should I read first?

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