Boston-born Ralph Waldo Emerson lost his father, a Concord minister, when he was eight years old, leaving the family in difficult circumstances.
A lighter take on the style of Walt Whitman. The poem guesses at how Whitman would "put forth his notions of poetry and poets."
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Boston-born Ralph Waldo Emerson lost his father, a Concord minister, when he was eight years old, leaving the family in difficult circumstances.
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