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The Journals & Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1822-1826 V 2
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 460 pages. Dimension: 158 x 237. Weight in Grams: 948.
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
1961
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674484511
SKU
V9780674484511
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Ref
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. Merrell R. Davis was Professor of English at the University of Washington at the time of his death in 1961.
Reviews for The Journals & Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1822-1826 V 2
No American mind stands more influentially for creativity than Emerson’s. And these lifelong records, his journals particularly, provide unique glimpses into his growth. In these years, out of college, uncomfortably teaching school, young Waldo is becoming Emerson… His journalizing was literary practice, but above all, it was a heritage from the unsparing Puritan self-examination of the spirit for signs of ... Read more