Publications, Media, and Resources for the Emerson Bicentennial

Resources for Congregations

• Emerson Bicentennial Committee's letter to UU congregations, April 2003 (PDF)
   
• Exhibit Book: The Living Legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, designed by Bonnie Hurd Smith
   
• Adult Curriculum: The Living Legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Joan W. Goodwin and Nancy Craig Simmons
   
• Children's Curriculum: Waldo Free and True: A Kid's Fun Book About Ralph Waldo Emerson by Betsy Hill Williams
   
• Worship Resources (PDF) by J. Frank Schulman
   
• Emerson Speaks (PDF) ed. J. Frank Schulman
   
• An Emerson Garland: the music in Emerson's verse for the congregation: 12 original Emerson poems, Leo Collins, Editor
  • Audio, Tutor and Scores
     
  • The Tutor for 'An Emerson Garland' (PDF, 50 pages): Research information, with Emerson's sermon on hymns & new poetry

Websites

• Complete Works of RWE
   
• Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Frank Schulman
   
• Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts
   
• Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
• Emerson Forum at Faneuil Hall: The Reawakening of the American Soul: On the Bicentenary of Emerson's Birth
   
• Emerson Bicentennial Events Calendar

Books

• A Dream Too Wild, by Barry Andrews
   
• Emerson as Spiritual Guide, by Barry Andrews
   
• The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by David M. Robinson
   
• Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
   
• Apostle of Culture: Emerson As Preacher and Lecturer, by David M. Robinson
   
• Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work, by David M. Robinson
   
• Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (Editor)
   
• The Strains of Eloquence: Emerson and His Sermons, by Wesley Mott
   
• Emersonian Circles: Essays in Honor of Joel Myerson, by Wesley Mott
   
• Emerson, by Lawrence Buell
   
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays, by Lawrence Buell
   
• The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things (Studies in English and American Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. literary Criticism in Perspective), by Sarah Ann Wider (out of print, some used copies available)
  

Publications

• Quest, June 2003 (a publication of The Church of the Larger Fellowship)

Articles

• "Emerson's Philosophy Still Resonates: An Interview with Richard Geldard," Boston Globe, September 20, 2003.
   
• "Big Dead White Male," by John Updike, New Yorker, August 4, 2003.
   
• "America's Founding Seeker," a Beliefnet interview with David Robinson
   
• "America's Founding Spiritual Seeker," adapted from the introduction to David Robinson's new book from Beacon Press, The Spiritual Emerson.
   
• "Emerson and the Perennial Philosophy," by Robert D. Richardson
   
• "It's Emerson's Anniversary and He's got 21st-Century America Nailed," by Adam Cohen, New York Times, May 4, 2003
   
• "The Great 'Ennobler'," by Richard Higgins, Boston Globe, May 23, 2003
   
• "Recalling Emerson's Influence at 200," by Richard Ostling, Associated Press, May 24, 2003
   
• "The Sage of Concord," by Harold Bloom, The Guardian, May 24, 2003
   
• "Emerson's Long Shadow," by Phil Anderson, Topeka Capitol-Journal, May 24, 2003
   
• "American Sphinx," by Lawrence Buell, Boston Globe, May 25, 2003
   
• "Emerson, Second Church, and 'The Real Priesthood'," by Wesley Mott: Emerson Bicentennial Program, First and Second Church, Boston, March 7, 2003
   
• "Emerson: Religion After Transcendentalism," by David M. Robinson: Emerson Bicentennial Program, First and Second Church in Boston, March 7, 2003
   
• "Emerson's Mirror," by Richard Higgins (UU World, March/April 2003)
   
• "Emerson's Shadow," by Forrest Church (UU World, March/April 2003)
   
• "Emersoniana," by Richard Higgins, Smithsonian Magazine (May 2003)
   
• "Still Ahead of His Time," by Frederick Turner, Smithsonian Magazine (May 2003)
   
• "The Infinitude of the Private Man," by Lawrence Buell, Harvard Magazine (May/June 2003)