Visiting England in 1833, Ralph Waldo Emerson travelled to meet the men who had inspired him – one of these people was Thomas Carlyle, the ‘lonely scholar’. And so a tumultuous relationship was forged. Continue reading
Tag Archives: American Literature
Hobbitry and Babbittry
How Tolkien’s classic took inspiration from a Nobel Prize winning novelist. Continue reading
‘I’ve Wanted it so Long’
In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Jo March goes crazy for a novel called Undine. But what is it, and who is it by? Thomas Ruys-Smith goes digging for answers. Continue reading
May-Day (Poem)
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Continue reading
The I.B.Tauris Blog 