{"date":"April 27","id":"04-27","intro":["The Puritan world feared Beauty. Emerson, great American essayist and philosopher, declared that the world was made for beauty, and openly worshiped at beauty’s shrine."],"minutes":29,"readings":[{"author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","end":310,"start":297,"volume":5,"work":"Beauty"}],"slug":"april-27","status":"proofread","title":"He Dared to See Forbidden Beauty","url":"/harvard-classics/april-27/","words":5786}