Whitman is greater than Thoreau or Emerson. Whitman is damn near ecstatic but he has a tendency to cross the line into bombast that can be irksome, while Thoreau is pithy but priggish, and Emerson is rather a stuffed shirt who could have used a lot more editing. But all of them are miles better than, say, Thomas Carlyle.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 23 July 2017 05:58 (seven years ago)