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John Updike reviews the flood of new Emerson literature emerging in the wake of the Sage of Concord‘s bicentennial. Perhaps now would be a good time to revise my paper on Herbert Croly and Emersonian perfectionism while the getting’s good.

Author KcMPosted on July 31, 2003March 28, 2013Categories Antebellum America, Arts and Letters, HistoryTags Herbert Croly, John Updike, New Yorker, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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