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Saturday, August 31, 2019

"The Past" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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August 31, 2019
 

The Past

 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Past" by Emerson

About This Poem

 

"The Past" was published in May-Day and Other Pieces (Ticknor and Fields, 1867).

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. Most known for his contributions as a transcendentalist philosopher, he is the author of May-Day and Other Pieces (Ticknor and Fields, 1867) and Poems (James Munroe, 1847). He died on April 27, 1882.

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