Abstract
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Experience (1844) after the death of his young son, a major schism in his life, and yet the essay is notable for the fact that Emerson pointedly refuses to demonstrate his grief. Tellingly, he does not even name the child, preferring the generalized and even imper sonal son instead. It would seem, from his words and the cursory manner in which he treats it, that the loss does not affect him: In the death of my son, now than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beauti ful estate,?no more (in 2001,200; hereafter cited parenthetically by page
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