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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Website Evaluators
Susan Collins - Northwest Whitfield High School, Georgia
Barbara Laurain - South Windsor High School, Connecticut
Penelope Springmann - Rogers High School, Arkansas
Website Reviewer and Compiler
Charles R. Sanders - San Pedro High School, California
Site Ratings
1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent
Emerson: A Visionary Life
http://www.watershed.winnipeg.mb.ca/EMERSON.html
Here is a comprehensive resource that offers "one-stop shopping"
for those looking for information on Ralph Waldo Emerson. Students "will enjoy researching and looking at the Life Chronology, an in-depth timeline of Emerson's life." The "beautifully
designed" copy of "The Snow Storm" may inspire students to create their own Emerson poetry pages. Teachers may find many useful ideas in the online course on Emerson, which "contains
summaries of the class discussions," and they may find help explaining Emerson's philosophy with his "Hippies, Hindus and Transcendentalism." Other highlights of this site include an Emerson
glossary, student responses, and a link to additional links. "For general knowledge and some critical commentary, this site is perfect for teachers and students."
Overall Rating: 4
Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/emerson.html
This impressive,
well-designed site on Ralph Waldo Emerson offers an excellent bibliography of his works, a listing of twenty of his poems by theme and topic, and a series of study questions ranging in degree of difficulty over a large
spectrum of his works. Titles listed in the bibliography are followed by a brief summary, "oftentimes followed by critical comments by Emerson contemporaries." The poetry page lists the "ten
most popular" and the "ten most obscure" Emersonian poems. One plus is an "appropriate MLA citation" assuring that "students will have at least one correct entry on their Works Cited
page!" This site is "highly recommended for both students and teachers for its ease of use and its variety."
Overall Rating: 4
Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Author, Poet and Philosopher
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/96may/emerson.html
Visitors to the
Lucidcafe who browse its virtual library's biography archive will discover a fine collection of resource links to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The biography of Emerson, which introduces the page, contains little
information, but the researcher can follow links to several excellent biographies elsewhere. Also available are e-texts of Emerson's works, including Nature, "The Transcendentalist,"
"Self-Reliance," and The American Scholar. Books by and about Emerson are offered for sale through a link to Amazon.com. This is "an excellent resource for either a teacher or an upper level
student."
Overall Rating: 3
Humanities Text Initiative American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?type=header&id=EmersEPoem
The Ralph Waldo Emerson section of the University of
Michigan's American Verse Project contains the complete collection of his poetry. Notes and commentary accompany most of the poems and the site is introduced by a wonderful forty-one page biography of
Emerson. Although it is "not visually appealing, it is entrancing because of the information provided." Various searches are offered and the site is easy to navigate. This is a fine resource
"for advanced high school students and teachers who are going in depth with Emerson's poetry."
Overall Rating: 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts
http://www.jjnet.com/emerson/
This "attractive" site on Ralph Waldo Emerson allows one to access the texts of several of his most well-known writings, to search the site for a specific word,
phrase, or quotation, to explore biographical links, and to join in a question/comment forum. Points most appealing to teachers and students are the access to wide selections of the author's writings, to information
about Emerson, and "an opportunity to express ideas and opinions" on all manner of topics. "This is an excellent site for the serious researcher of Emerson and students of American literature."
Overall Rating: 3
Environmental Ethics - Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://divweb.harvard.edu/csvpl/ee/emer.htm
This site, from Harvard
University's Seminar on Environmental Values, focuses entirely on Ralph Waldo Emerson's "writings dealing with nature." The complete text of Nature, along with four orations delivered by Emerson are
accessible on this page. There are no graphics nor any commentary on the writings. However, the only link offered leads to a comprehensive listing of Emerson's writings, a discovery that makes one's stop
here quite worthwhile.
Overall Rating: 2
Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.rain.org/~elw/writings.html
If you are looking for biographical or critical information on Ralph Waldo Emerson, try elsewhere. However, if you are looking for copies of Emerson's more
well-known writings, then this is an easily accessible source. Ten works by Emerson, including Nature, The American Scholar, Representative Men, and The Conduct of Life, are available in a rather unattractive, but
complete format. One useful feature is a listing of titles, "date of publication or address, and a brief summary or comment by...the site's administrator."
Overall Rating: 2 |
