Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson,  William H. Gilman, J. E.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: waldo, emerson, journals, ralph, notebooks, miscellaneous, viii, volume
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0674484703
ISBN-13: 9780674484702

In July, 1841, Emerson wrote to Carlyle: "My whole philosophy...teaches acquiescence and optimism." The journals in this volume, beginning in the summer of 1841, record the spiritual history of two years that can be viewed as the most critical test in Emerson’s life of his ability to maintain the two aspects of that philosophy. Early in 1842 his son Waldo died, and the man who only months before had described himself as "professor of the joyous Science" found himself once again confronting the full implications of grief. Seeking to comprehend the loss, he used his journals to articulat

Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson, A. W. Plumstead, Harrison Hayfo
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: journals, emerson, ralph, waldo, notebooks, miscellaneous, amp, volume, vii
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 1969-01-01
List price: $124.00
ISBN-10: 0674484576
ISBN-13: 9780674484573

When Emerson began these journals in June of 1838, he "had achieved initial success in each of his main forms of public utterance. The days of finding his proper role and public voice were now behind him...and his...personal life had healed from earlier wounds." Now he was married to Lydia Jackson of Plymouth and was the father of a young son, Waldo. They lived in a large, comfortable house in Concord, only a half-day’s drive from Boston but close to the solitude of nature. Still to come was the controversy he would create by his address to the graduating class at Harvard Divinity Scho

Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson,  William H. Gilman, Charl
Publisher: Signet Classic
Keywords: signet, classics, emerson, waldo, writings, ralph, selected
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2003-10-07
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0451529073
ISBN-13: 9780451529077

From one of the greatest figures of 19th-century America... This new edition offers a broad view of the author’s finest work, featuring his critical essays, poems, and letters, plus a considerable amount of material from the Journals, including an entry discovered in 1964 in the Library of Congress.

Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson,
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: modern, library, classics, emerson, waldo, writings, ralph, essential
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2000-09-12
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0679783229
ISBN-13: 9780679783220

The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true "American Scholar."As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one’s own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson’s e

Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson,
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: emerson, waldo, ralph, lectures, selected
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2005-08-29
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0820327336
ISBN-13: 9780820327334

This is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era’s most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson--the most experienced Emerson editors working today--these twenty-five addresses collectively exemplify the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day.Best known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some 1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most important ideas w

Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Alfred R. Fergus
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: volume, xiii, emerson, waldo, ralph, journals
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 1977-01-01
List price: $124.00
ISBN-10: 0674484762
ISBN-13: 9780674484764

The journals printed in this volume, covering the years 1852 to 1855, find Emerson increasingly drawn to the issues and realities of the pragmatic, hard-working nineteenth century. His own situation as a middle-aged, property-owning New Englander with a large household to support gave him a strong sense of everyday financial necessity, and his wide reading for his projected book on the English impressed him deeply with the worldly success that had conic to that unphiiosophieal people. The growing crisis over slavery at home, moreover, demanded the attention of every citizen, even one as relu

Author: Waldo Frank
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: holiday
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-11-25
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0252071336
ISBN-13: 9780252071331

The novel Holiday is a compelling account of a southern lynching in which the simmering sexual and religious fervor and the violent act to which they inexorably lead are depicted in a modernist, experimental style. Although Holiday was promoted alongside Harlem Renaissance works, Waldo Frank was not a natural fit for the New Negro movement. Born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family in New Jersey and educated at Yale, Frank traveled around the South in 1922 with his friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer, collecting observations for what was to become Holiday. The events o