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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... grows the line on which we must walk ; deep the gulf on either hand , the man is weary of labor & mere repetition of tasks , & would willingly exchange some of this rude health for some intellectual culture . Instantly we say , how ...
... grow old , but grow young . 17 18 In the spring of 1849 , in preparing what would become volume one of his Collected Works , Emer- son dropped a motto from Plotinus he had been using for some years : “ Nature is but an image or ...
... and equable expansion . Corn grows by jumps . Whoever explores his recollection of those periods , will find that by some causality or some study he has arrived at one of those general ideas that not only epitomize whole 60 APRIL.