Emerson
noun
Ralph Waldo, 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
Emersonian
-
a word derived from
Emerson.
Example Sentences
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The “Grosse Fuge” predictably offered the true test of Emersonian mettle.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2022
Emmet’s own father walked away from a wealthy family to work the land in Nebraska, inspired by the romantic ideal of Emersonian self-reliance.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Sunsets and the sea were archetypes of an Emersonian blend of reason and faith for such great 19th century American landscape painters as Thomas Cole and John Frederick Kensett.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020
Hendrickson, the author of an acclaimed biographical portrait of Hemingway, also subscribes to the received cant that Wright heroically embodied a Whitmanesque or Emersonian ideal, all big skies, prairie homes and American braggadocio.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
After pi-loting it west out of Atlanta, he’d arrived in Lake Mead National Recreation Area on July 6, riding a giddy Emersonian high.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
