Emerson, Shakespeare, and the Art of Being a Person

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Fall 2023/Winter 2024

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of Shakespeare: “He is inconceivably wise. With this wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power. An omnipresent humanity coordinates all his faculties. He is strong, as nature is strong.” In three lecture-discussion sessions we will explore the thoughts and admonitions left for us by these two authors. We will evaluate which of their practical ideas are useful and

which are outdated in our own life experience.

Ron McAdow

Ron McAdow is a former Executive Director of Sudbury Valley Trustees. His non-fiction books include The Concord, Sudbury, and Assabet Rivers: A Guide to Canoeing, Wildlife, and History, Imagining the Past at Mount Misery, Concord Village, and Emerson's Nature. His novels are Ike and The Grove of Hollow Trees.