Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
About Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Joneswas an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard University.
Jones was the book editor for The Boston Evening Transcript.
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
U.S. writer, literary critic, and professor of English