Joel Porte
Joel Porte is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University. He has written extensively on American Renaissance figures and is the author of Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict and Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time, among other books.
Joel Porte is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University. He has written extensively on American Renaissance figures and is the author of Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict and Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time, among other books. See less
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Emerson in His Journals
Emerson Unplugged
Emerson was not a brilliant mind, but he strikes one as honest, and the more economical and less exalted style he employs in the journals is well fitted to the small incidents and details and ... Read More
