SOURCE: “‘Too Pathetic, Too Pitiable’: Emerson's Lessons in Love's Philosophy,” in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Vol. 40, No. 2, 2nd Quarter, 1994, pp. 139-82.
In the following essay, Selinger examines Emerson's view on marriage and love, and the friction between earthly love and a more divine love.
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