This biography takes a fresh look at Emerson through his Journals to trace the story of his own self-development, and the hidden life's work that makes him as relevant to our time as to his own.

"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and ...

Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

With Annotations Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes. INDEX Abandonment , continence ... in author , Ix , 8 . Adaptiveness , VII , 61 ; 103 . Addison never knew nature , IV , 259 . Admiration , II , 378 ...

This volume offers the reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for over 50 years.

Carry Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wisdom with you in this inspirational guide that features 60 of his most insightful quotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes. INDEX Adirondac Club , IX , 159-61 ; IX ... in author , Ix , 8 . Adaptiveness , VII , 61 ; 103 . Addison never knew nature , Iv , 259 . 193 , 194 . Admiration ...

A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.

In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public.