Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy ... Emerson advised the younger man to cut out the more overtly sexual poems, but, even after hearing the literary lion's counsel, Whitman was adamant about ...

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson I had a ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated ... to the tune of a well-known Protestant hymn, "Old Hundredth." Emerson's poem, first sung at the dedication of a battle monument during ...