Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals Vol. 2 1841-1877 (LOA #202)
Selected Journals Vol. 2 1841-1877 (LOA #202)
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- Hardcover
992 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2010
Summary
When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation–his journals–remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse for almost 60 years, Emerson’s journals were his life’s work. They were the starting point for virtually everything in his celebrated essays, lectures, and poems; a “Savings Bank,” in which his occasional insights began to cohere and yield interes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598530681 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598530682 |
| Author: | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lawrence Rosenwald |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 992 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2010 |
| Weight: | 675g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 133mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition |
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“For several months I have been camping out in the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a companionable, familiar, and yet endlessly stimulating place, and, since his mind his stronger than mine, I keep referring to his wisdom, even his doubts, and quite shamelessly identifying with him. All this started when I came across in a local bookstore the new, two-volume edition of his Selected Journals, published by The Library of America, and I decided to give it a whirl. Some 1,900 pages later, I am in thrall to, in love with, Mr. Emerson.” —Phillip Lopate, Harper’s Magazine
About The Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His principal publications includeNature(1836),two volumes ofEssays(1841, 1844),Poems(1847),Representative Men(1850),The Conduct of Life(1860), andSociety and Solitude(1870).Lawrence Rosenwald, editor, is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature at Wellesley College and the author ofEmerson and the Art of the Diary.
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