person
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
American essayist and philosopher (1803-1882); the second epigraph ("The hero is he who is immovably centred") is from his essay 'Heroism.'
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §4 Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), American essayist; the line is from his essay 'Heroism' and Rilke keeps it in Emerson's English.