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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... poet , and poets have been charged with having visions for us who cannot see , and imagining for us worlds we cannot fathom on our own . And inevitably , his spirit comes through to us , whether in his spoken or written words . He ...
... great admiration for the Persian poets . O poet ! A new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures , and not in castles or by the sword - blade any longer . The conditions are hard , but equal . Thou shalt leave 54 MARCH.
... poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives . The poet gives us the eminent experi- ences only , - a god stepping from peak to peak , nor plant- ing his foot but on a mountain . 4 - Emerson turns his attention to what we now ...