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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1819-22 v. 1 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson): Volume I
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 494 pages. Dimension: 241 x 167. Weight in Grams: 830.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man and thinker, will be fully revealed for the first time in this new edition of his journals and notebooks. The old image of the ideal nineteenth-century gentleman, created by editorial omissions of his spontaneous thoughts, is replaced by the picture of Emerson as he really was. His frank and often bitter criticisms of men and society, his “nihilizing,” his anguish at the death of his first wife, his bleak struggles with depression and loneliness, his sardonic views of woman, his earthy humor, his ideas of the Negro, of religion, of God—these and other expressions of ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
494
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674484504
SKU
V9780674484504
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99-1
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
William H. Gilman is Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Alfred R. Ferguson (1915–1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. George P. Clark was United States Cultural Affairs Officer in West Berlin. Merrell R. Davis was Professor of English at the University of Washington at the time of his death in 1961.
Reviews for The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1819-22 v. 1 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson): Volume I
[In these early journals and notebooks,] Emerson was not writing for posterity. He was straightening out his own thoughts and accumulating his ‘savings Bank’ (as he said) which he could draw on for his published work. The manuscripts contain everything, from college essays, notes on lectures, and commonplace book jottings to accounts, lists of books to be read, indexes, and ... Read more