Sage of Concord

Whitman worshipped the Sage of Concord—I was simmering, simmering, simmering.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Whitman worshipped the Sage of Concord—I was simmering, simmering, simmering.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Whitman, a more positive Emersonian, affirms what the Sage of Concord called self-reliance, the authentic American religion rather than its Bushian parodies.

Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

Whitman, a more positive Emersonian, affirms what the Sage of Concord called self-reliance, the authentic American religion rather than its Bushian parodies.

Harold Bloom Jenny Davidson 2005

Mark your calendars: the Sage of Concord would turn 200 on May 25 if he were cryogenically preserved like Ted Williams!

Philocrites: April 2003 Archives 2003

Howells was intending to consecrate all time and eternity to it, and here is the Sage of Concord coolly speaking of poetry as though it were some trifling diversion, like billiards or whist.

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

There was always in his eyes (and in this as in other points he resembled Emerson) a strange indefinable suspicion of a smile, though he, like the Sage of Concord, rarely laughed.

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

William Major and Bryan Sinche are weary of the cult of the Sage of Concord.

Wired Campus 2010

The Sage of Concord by Harold Bloom Guardian 5.24.03.

Philocrites: May 2003 Archives 2003