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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... hear what Emerson says so much as to hear Emerson . If asked what was left ? What we carry home ? ... We might have asked in return what one brought away from a symphony of Beethoven ? When reading Emerson , we are well advised to ...
... hear and see the inundation and eternal spending of the stream , in winter and in summer , in men and animals , in passion and thought . Happy are they who hear it . 17 Coming back to health at the end of his Southern journey in 1827 ...
... hear of Byron or Milton who drank soda water & ate a crust whilst others fed fat & I take the confessional anew . Then I hear that my friend has finished Aristopha- nes , Plato , Cicero & Grotius and I take shame to myself . Then I hear ...