Last week:
Emily Dickinson, ““Hope’ is the thing with feathers (c. 1861)
This week:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), philosopher poet, first published “Self Reliance,” a short essay that has moved so many readers, in 1841 as part of Essays: First Series. (I love that title as it presumes its sequel, “Essays, Sec…
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