Zitat des Tages von Howard Mumford Jones:
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
