Emerson's four-quatrain poem Brahma, spoken in the voice of the Hindu god of creation and addressing the illusory nature of dualities such as life and death, published in the inaugural issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Number 1, November 1857. Drew on Emerson's reading of the Bhagavad Gita and Vedic texts; contemporary newspapers widely mocked it as impenetrable before it became one of his most anthologized works.
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AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson
PublisherThe Atlantic Monthly
URLhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly/Volume_1/Number_1/Brahma
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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Brahma," The Atlantic Monthly, November 1857Ralph Waldo Emerson
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