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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... expression was calm , sedate , kindly ; his manner noble and gracious . " And then there was his voice , a resonant , almost hypnotic baritone that seemed to be destiny's gift to the man who became the foremost lecturer of this time ...
... expression . In love , in art , in avarice , in politics , in labor , in games , we study to utter our painful secret . The man is only half himself , the other half is his expression . 27 Emerson takes another stand against conformity ...
... expression and as brilliant as his power of illustra- tion was he stuck like a mathematician to his truth and never added a syllable for display ... he has never stopped growing but has ripened from month to month . Indeed the weight of ...