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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... river here . Every day is clear & hot , the sky rich , the shores lined with palm groves , the birds innumerable , the ibis , the penguin , the hawk & the eagle , with vast flights of geese & ducks & flocks of little birds of sparrow ...
... Rivers , " he uses the flowing stream as a metaphor for what in other places he calls " the big idea . " ( Musketaquid is the original name of the Concord River . ) Thy voice is sweet , Musketaquid ; repeats the music of the rain ; but ...
... river flows through the flats under my eye yet unknowing that his friend's friend loves the surly sea's roar better than his childish murmuring . Ah he would look me pathetically in the face , did he imagine , that I his almost sole ...