Emerson was a founder of, and contributor to the magazine The Atlantic. Here is the end of his comment on the genius of Shakespeare. "The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakespeare were not published until three years later. Had they been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them." It is to consider as to the power of an expanded imagination, and its influence on those to whom it is conveyed, to those who see, read, contemplate, and receive.