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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... idea on others ; and their trick is their natural defence . Jesus would absorb the race ; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blas- phemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power . 28 Here , we get some idea of how hard Emerson ...
... ideas and many prem- ises of Asiatic philosophies . Meanwhile , Plato in Egypt and in eastern pilgrimages , imbibed the idea of one Deity , in which all things are ab- sorbed . The unity of Asia and the detail of Europe ; the in ...
... idea of how he would like to be read , and he confides a vision of his ideal reader to his journal . I would have my book read as I have read my favorite books , not with explosion & astonishment , a marvel and a rocket , but a friendly ...