This January at Clars we are pleased to offer a selection of fine paintings, prints, and sculptures to brighten gray winter days. On Saturday, November 10, 2018, Rago will present works by notable New ...

Page one of letter from R. W. Emerson to Walt Whitman about Leaves of Grass, 1855. Courtesy: Library of Congress The Boston literary crowd overlapped with the advocacy of progressive political ...

Before publishing any of his own poetry, Whitman had attended one of Emerson’s lectures about the essence of poetry and its effect on culture. The exposure fundamentally changed Walt Whitman’s ...

At a later session Emerson 11 was decorated with three clothes lines, on each of which was attached an illuminated clothespin. Walter announced, "I'll show you a very nice trick in a moment." ...