What do you think of Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Based but Thoreau was more committed. Emerson wrote about self-reliance. Thoreau lived it
>>24689058Thoreau's innawoods adventure was a larp.
>>24689232This post is a larp
America’s essayist. Over-cerebralized. Great-grandfather of all New England Leftists. The great American authors of the 1850s are his spiritual inheritors— yet they exist as a critique of Emerson’s disconnection from the practical and the physical. Thoreau goes to the woods, Whitman sings the body electric, Melville rejects Neoplatonic idealism, etc.
Also whoever had that famous quote about his writing being all sauce and no meat was accurate. Every sentence strives to be an aphorism. You can’t unsee it once you see it. Nature and Experience are the two best essays and his Notebooks are fundamental.
