Emerson: The Mind on Fire - Rilegato

Richardson, Robert D.

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ISBN 10: 0520088085 ISBN 13: 9780520088085

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1995

Riassunto

A detailed portrait challenges popular stereotypes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, drawing on correspondence among the Emerson brothers, and reveals Emerson's many identities as a grieving widower, an affectionate father, a spokesman for individualism, and an intellectual adventurer. UP.

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L'autore:

Robert D. Richardson Jr., Adjunct Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University, is also the author ofHenry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (California, 1986), which won the Melcher Prize in 1987.Barry Moser is one of the foremost wood engravers and book illustrators in America.

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"Richardson's rich and extensive book on Ralph Waldo Emerson is a guide to the fire that burned always at the center of Emerson's life. . . . To read this book is to be touched on the shoulder by a thousand years of poetry and thought. . . . For those who would understand Emerson, it is unforgettable; it is essential."Mary Oliver, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

"Emerson himself would surely have applauded Robert Richardson's monumental study, which treats the sage's thought not as a set of coldly reasoned propositions but as the continually shifting outcome of a struggle to surmount crisis and tragedy. In the process, Richardson has fashioned our most credible portrait of a vulnerable, driven, fully human Emerson."Frederick Crews, author ofThe Sins of the Father

"The best biography I have read in years. Mr. Richardson is just the splendid writer Emerson has long deserved, and he makes the story great-hearted, inclusive, intellectual, and inspiring. I was enthralled."Edward Hoagland

"A superb work . . . that will quickly come to be regarded as the definitive biography of Emerson. . . . Richardson's greatest achievement is to restore for us the emotional and passionate element of Emerson's life and personality, and to make us understand how significant an element that was. . . . He brings a very complex and interesting mannot just a thinkerto life."David M. Robinson, author ofEmerson and the Conduct of Life

"Scholars and general readers alike will return to this comprehensive and painstaking study for a long time to come."Joel Porte, editor ofEmerson's Essays

"The most readable biography of Emerson ever written and also one of the best from a scholarly standpoint."Lawrence Buell, Harvard University

"In this magnificent study Emerson stands before us not only as the embodiment of his 'American Scholar' but also as a human mind. Richardson's Emerson is one whom we want to reread, but, more important, also whom we want to know as a friend and mentor."Philip F. Gura

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520088085
• ISBN 13: 9780520088085
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 684