Lectures tagged "transcendentalism"

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Emerson and the Examined Life
Robert Pinsky
June 28, 2003
01:55:48
Robert Pinsky, award-winning author and poet, Richard Geldard and David M. Robinson, Emerson scholars, celebrate the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a live reading from famous American essays including Self-Reliance, The Oversoul and The American Scholar.
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Robert D. Richardson
December 11, 1996
00:29:02
Robert D. Richardson tells the remarkable story of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's greatest thinkers. Richardson, whose last biography chronicled the intellectual life of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, now turns his focus to Thoreau's contemporary, Emerson.