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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... Tell me , maiden , dost thou use Thyself thro ' Nature to diffuse ? All the angles of the coast Were tenanted by thy sweet ghost , Bore thy colors every flower . Thine each leaf and berry bore ; All wore thy badges and thy favors In ...
... tell their sense , they would become the thoughts we have ; could our thoughts take form they would hang as sunny leaves . And yet it is not by direct study of these enchantments that their sense is to be extorted , but by manlier ...
... tell me what reply your active medi- tations have forged in metaphysical armoury to what is the Origin of Evil ? And what becomes of the poor Slave born in chains living in stripes & toil for , who has never heard of virtue & never ...