A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... clear perception . How comic is simplicity in this double - dealing , quacking world . Everything that boy says makes merry with society , though nothing can be graver than his meaning . I told him he should write out the history of his ...
... clear ; Or east it smells like a clover - farm ; Or west no thunder fear . There is a limit to the effect of written ... clearly as he has anywhere his core belief . His statement that his “ creed is goodness ” is similar to the ...
... clear & strong on all sides , but the sacred affirmative it hides in the deep- est abyss . We do not see that heroic resolutions will absolve men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps & lev- els in the moral emotive ...