Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman's work.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.

这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》

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But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Emerson's roommate, Julia Karrenbauer, told CNN Thursday that Emerson's sunglasses and mittens were found in the area, as was a baton.

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Meanwhile, Emerson's relatives clung to hope despite the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's insistence that search-and-rescue efforts have given way to trying to find Emerson's body.

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It's by Emerson, one of my own local heroes.

CNN: Thank you, Anderson