A Year with Emerson

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David R. Godine Publisher, 2005 - 256 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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February
19
July
87
October
157
December
191
Additional Reading
229
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Richard Grossman was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1943. He attended Stanford University graduating with a degree in English literature. Grossman's first book of poetry, Tycoon Boy, was published in 1977 and was followed by The Animals in 1983 and reissued in 1990 and 2011. For the past two decades Grossman has been concentrating on a trilogy entitled American Letters. Its first two volumes, The Alphabet Man, describing hell, and The Book of Lazarus, describing purgatory, were published in 1993 and 1997 respectively. The trilogy's final installment, Breeze Avenue, a work on heaven, is scheduled for publication in late 2013.

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