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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: v. 5 (Journals & Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson): Volume V

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Description for The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: v. 5 (Journals & Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson): Volume V hardcover. Num Pages: 568 pages. Dimension: 241 x 161. Weight in Grams: 1104.

The journals of 1835–1838, perhaps the richest Ralph Waldo Emerson had yet written, cover the pivotal years when he brought to Concord his second wife, Lydia Jackson of Plymouth, published Nature (1836), and wrote “The American Scholar” (1837) and the Divinity School Address (1838). As he turned from the pulpit to the lecture platform in the 1830’s, the journals became more and more repository for the substance of future lectures; his annual winter series, particularly those dealing with The Philosophy of History, in 1836–1837, and Human Culture, in 1837–1838, were drawn largely from materials contained in this volume.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1965
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674484542
SKU
V9780674484542
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Ref
99-1

About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Merton M. Sealts, Jr., was Professor of English at Lawrence University from 1948–1965 and at the University of Wisconsin from 1965 until his death.

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The period covered by this volume was the most interesting and perhaps the most important of Emerson’s life, during which he completed and published his first book ‘Nature,’ and delivered his first famous lecture, ‘The American Scholar,’ before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College… Much of the material that went into…‘Nature,’ ‘Self-Reliance,’ ‘Spiritual Laws,’ and other famous essays ... Read more

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