Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D. Richardson Jr
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520088085
- ISBN 13
- 9780520088085
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About This Item
These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age.
Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator.
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ9890389
- Title
- Emerson: The Mind on Fire
- Author
- Robert D. Richardson Jr
- Format/Binding
- Previous owner stamp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0520088085
- ISBN 13
- 9780520088085
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- April 5, 1995
- Keywords
- biography, writer, poet, 19th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoir/Biography;
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