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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... poem , Emerson uses the mountain as a metaphor for a purposeful Creation , and the following lines , at the poem's climax , give some flavor of the roman- tic speculations he explores throughout the work . MONADNOC To myriad kinds and ...
... poem " Hamatreya " on a pas- sage in one of the Hindu texts he read many times . The original , Vishnu Purana , was a fable about princes who are inflated with their possessions ; Emerson found it easy to adapt the theme with the ...
... poets , and ultimately became Emerson's favorite , and , in 1842 , the subject of his poem , " Saadi " ( Emerson's spelling ) . SAADI God , who gave to him the lyre Of all mortals the desire , For all breathing men's behoof , Straitly ...