Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hardcover)

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Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1966

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Hardcover. Volume VI in this series contains quotation books and miscellaneous notebooks that Ralph Waldo Emerson kept between 1824 and 1838, and to which he added occasionally as late as the 1860s. With some attempt at a systematic listing, but more often at random, he set down an enormous variety of entries from Burke, Montaigne, Madame de Stael, Bacon, Plutarch, Jeremy Taylor, and a host of other writers both famous and obscure, with frequent comments of his own.One book contains Emerson's lengthy translations of Goethe, while another is devoted to his brother Charles, who died in 1836, and includes, among other items, excerpts from Charles's letters to his fiancee. A third contains an interview with a survivor of the battle of Concord and household accounts from the fall and winter of 1835, just after Emerson's marriage to Lydia Jackson.Frequent annotations show that Emerson referred to several of these books in composing the sermons he began to give late in 1826, and that many of the entries found their way into his public lectures, into Nature, and into Essays: First Series. These pages are a fascinating indication of the sources on which Emerson drew steadily in his writing and thinking, and reflect clearly, although indirectly, his own characteristic philosophy. One notebook contains Emersons translations of Goethe; another is devoted to his brother Charles and includes excerpts from Charless letters to his fiancee. A third contains an interview with a survivor of the battle of Concord and household accounts from just after Emersons marriage to Lydia Jackson. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hardcover)
Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass
Publication year
1966
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new
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Hardcover
Language
English
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