Thoreau vs Whitman vs Emerson

he is naive. that's what's wrong with him. he gives intellectual cover to radical individualism, even narcissism

'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.

Thoreau is like Ralph Emerson. Ralph Emerson is what I read.

Reading Ralph Emerson near Waldo pond