Emerson's 'The American Scholar'
1837 · Event
Addressing Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa society, Emerson calls on Americans to stop listening to 'the courtly muses of Europe' — Oliver Wendell Holmes called it America's intellectual declaration of independence.
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