I want to re read all these guys. Any feelings?
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2017 03:54 (eight years ago)
I guess I'd rank them in order of listing
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2017 03:55 (eight years ago)
Whitman is greater than Thoreau or Emerson. Whitman is damn near ecstatic but he has a tendency to cross the line into bombast that can be irksome, while Thoreau is pithy but priggish, and Emerson is rather a stuffed shirt who could have used a lot more editing. But all of them are miles better than, say, Thomas Carlyle.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 23 July 2017 05:58 (eight years ago)
emerson is not at all a stuffed shirt
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:18 (five years ago)
he is naive. that's what's wrong with him. he gives intellectual cover to radical individualism, even narcissism
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:19 (five years ago)
'self-reliance' has interesting and paradoxical things to say about the nature of originality, i think. i will not share them here, it's a secret.
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:34 (five years ago)
Thoreau is like Ralph Emerson. Ralph Emerson is what I read.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:38 (five years ago)
Reading Ralph Emerson near Waldo pond
― treeship., Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:57 (five years ago)
Thoreau getting his Ken Burns moment
I had no idea that Don Henley (THAT Don Henley) was such a super fan... Reminded of Phil Collins Alamo fandom
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/25/henry-david-thoreau-ken-burns-don-henley-documentary-pbs-walden-george-clooney
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 25 March 2026 18:27 (two months ago)