Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Ralph Waldo Emerson” in chapter 6, page 130 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...ily at the notion that after fifty years their townsman's literary works would be published in a sumptuous twenty-volume edition, and that critics in his own country and in Europe would rank him with Ralph Waldo Emerson .
Yet that is precisely what has happened.
Our literature has no more curious story than the evolution of this local crank
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