Brooks Atkinson

American essayist, lecturer, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a champion of individualism and major critic of the prevailing society of his time. Emerson forwarded his ideology by publishing dozens of essays and giving over 1500 lectures in the United States during his lifetime. Emerson's philosophy did not espouse any specific tenets but rather promoted generally the principles of individuality, freedom,...

The celebrated critic discourses on the productions, personalities, stars, and showmen of Broadway's lively history from the melodramas of the turn of the century.

Piece is a typescript from the New York Times about an article published in the Massachusetts Review by Louise Osgood Koopman concerning proposal of marriage from Henry David Thoreau to Ellen Sewall, and her rejection of the proposal. Ellen Sewall was Louise Osgood Koopman's mother. Piece also discusses earlier proposal of marriage by John Thoreau, Henry's brother. This proposal was also rejected.