The Democratic Review was also ( perhaps even primarily ) a literary magazine, promoting the development of American literature by publishing works of authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became a " constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters "; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain ( Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink, while it was Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him / them to his attention ); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " first enthusiastic fan "; Ken Campbell, Fortean playwright ; John Michell ; Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues ; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database ; Canadian " Mr. X "; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson.

He was a prolific writer, contributing to the North American Review, the Dial, the Christian Examiner, and other serials, a member of the Transcendental Club, and corresponded with Ralph Waldo Emerson.

" Emerson and The Conduct of Life ," The English Review, 1, No. 2, 1973: 6-27.

Oliver Wendell Holmes describes the magazine thus, in his disquisition on Ralph Waldo Emerson: " The Anthology was the literary precursor of the North American Review, and the theological herald of the Christian Examiner.

The Emerson Review, founded in 1953 as The Scribe, is Emerson College's oldest student-run literary magazine.

Currently, distribution of The Emerson Review is limited to the Emerson College community, though distribution is being expanded to include bookstores in the Boston area, and a mailing campaign involving Emerson College donors and former Emerson Review editors is being developed.

Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it.

After graduating from Fryeburg Academy in Fryeburg, Maine, he enrolled at Emerson College as a poetry major, where he earned his B. A.

Lowell had high hopes for his performance but was overshadowed by the other notables presenting works that day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. " I did not make the hit I expected ," he wrote, " and am ashamed at having been tempted again to think I could write poetry, a delusion from which I have been tolerably free these dozen years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that, though Lowell had significant technical skill, his poetry " rather expresses his wish, his ambition, than the uncontrollable interior impulse which is the authentic mark of a new poem ... and which is felt in the pervading tone, rather than in brilliant parts or lines.

She also published poetry ; her poems, styled after the work of Emerson, do not have the same intellectual vigor as her criticism.

" Ralph Waldo Emerson admired her poetry and used several of her poems in his public readings.

Emerson noted that, though Holmes did not renew his focus on poetry until later in his life, he quickly perfected his role " like old pear trees which have done nothing for ten years, and at last begin to grow great.

Persian literature inspired Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others, and it has been often dubbed as a most worthy language to serve as a conduit for poetry.

For fifteen years, Wolfe was sole publisher of Tombouctou Books, a small press enterprise located in Bolinas, California, that published works of poetry and avant garde prose, including The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll, two books of fiction by the Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet, and American fiction by Douglas Woolf, Dale Herd, Lucia Berlin, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Steve Emerson, and Paul Bowles's final collection of short stories, Unwelcome Words: Seven Stories.

West claims inspiration from the poetry and works of Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and most notably Leonard Cohen.

It was derived from a Provençal expression ( gai saber ) for the technical skill required for poetry writing that had already been used by Ralph Waldo Emerson and E. S. Dallas and, in inverted form, by Thomas Carlyle in The dismal science.

David Ogden Stiers ( born October 31, 1942 ) is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney movies, as well as his performances in the television series M * A * S * H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy.

Notable Emerson graduates include Kate Grinold ( 2003 ), who was crowned Miss District of Columbia in June 2008 and who represented the District in 2009's Miss America Pageant, movie actor, and vocalist of the alternative rock band 30 Seconds To Mars Jared Leto ( class of 1989 ), science fiction author William F. Gibson ( 1970 ), and musician Brian Baker ( 1983 ).

Ellen Emerson White is an American author who has written a number of young adult fiction novels.

In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ), an ex-minister, published a startling nonfiction work called Nature, in which he claimed it was possible to dispense with organized religion and reach a lofty spiritual state by studying and responding to the natural world.

Anita Loos and John Emerson by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair ( American magazine 1913-1936 ) | Vanity Fair, July 1928

Edward Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, published Forbes biography in the September 1899 issue of " Atlantic " magazine.

This new magazine was edited by Holmes's friend James Russell Lowell, and articles were contributed by the New England literary elite such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Lothrop Motley and J. Elliot Cabot.

In 2012, Mr. Siegfried stepped down, and Eva Emerson became the Acting Editor in Chief of the magazine.

While at Emerson, he worked for the school humor magazine, school newspaper, WERS 88. 9 FM radio, and served as art director on several dramatic plays.

Copies of this magazine are now of value to collectors as they contained the earliest printed poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a personal friend and a distant cousin.

Emerson wrote to Fuller on August 4, 1840, of his ambitions for the magazine:

" Damon Wise of Empire magazine gave it five stars, calling it " A dazzling and exquisitely original riddle as told by an enigma " and Jim Emerson ( editor of RogerEbert. com ) gave it 4 stars and praised it: " When people say Inland Empire is Lynch's Sunset Boulevard, Lynch's Persona or Lynch's 8½, they're quite right, but it also explicitly invokes connections to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou, Buñuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou, Maya Deren's LA-experimental Meshes of the Afternoon ( a Lynch favorite ) and others ".

William Emerson ( published in Polyanthos ( magazine ) | Polyanthos 1812

* 1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D / 1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13 – 14.

* Keith Emerson / Glenn Hughes / Marc Bonilla-Boys Club-Live From California ( 2008 )

Wanting to launch a keyboard / bass / drum band, Emerson and Lake sought out a drummer.

The band was labeled a supergroup as it included former members of several veteran progressive rock bands, namely bassist / vocalist John Wetton ( formerly in Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, U. K. and Wishbone Ash ), guitarist Steve Howe ( formerly, and subsequently in Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes ( of Yes and The Buggles ) and drummer Carl Palmer ( formerly in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster and Emerson, Lake & Palmer ).

In 2002 Emerson re-formed and toured with The Nice, though performing a longer set of ELP music using a backing band including guitarist / vocalist Dave Kilminster.

Emerson opened the Led Zeppelin reunion / Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert at the O2 Arena in London on 10 December 2007, along with Chris Squire and Alan White ( Yes ) and Simon Kirke ( Bad Company / Free ).

The intro / outro music used for Creature Double Feature throughout its run was Emerson, Lake & Palmer's " Toccata " from Brain Salad Surgery.

Pianist Keith Emerson ( born 1944 ) was founder / member of The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

The Bluto / Brutus name debate has become a topic of interest on The Rick Emerson radio program.

The Nice consisted initially of keyboardist Keith Emerson, bassist / vocalist Lee Jackson, drummer Brian Davison, and guitarist David O ' List, more commonly known as " Davy ".

Keith Emerson with The Nice was reissued on CD in 1990 as a single disc, eliminating " Country Pie / Brandenburg Conc .# 6 " and " One of Those People " from Five Bridges and " Pathetique " from Elegy.

Emerson / VISTA.

Emerson / VISTA.

; Sunshine ( 1970 ): Sunshine / Who's Gonna Love Me / Mr. Factory / Love and Rock and Roll Music / Over and Over / Waldo P. Emerson Jones / A Summer Prayer for Peace / Dance Dance Dance / Comes the Sun / Suddenly Susan / One Big Family / It's the Summertime