American Quote by Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

— John Burroughs

“We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none other than…

— Bart Schultz

Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his…

— Sylvia Plath

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

— John Muir

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary…

— Paul Di Filippo

“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at…

— Lynne Truss

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

— Marilynne Robinson

“When all is said and done, later in this century, and in the next one, and the century after that, it will be understood…

— Arlene Sanders

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

— Howard Mumford Jones

“Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and…

— Siri Hustvedt