The Topical Notebooks Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,Ralph H. Orth
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0826209513

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The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Ralph H. Orth Pdf

"Published here for the first time are seven of Emerson's topical notebooks, which served as a source for his lectures, essays, and books of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. Concerned primarily with nature, art, philosophy, American culture, and his contemporaries, the notebooks presented in this first of a three-volume editions afford fascinating insight into Emerson's creative practices. They will offer new perspectives for future readings of his completed works. The editors provide faithful transcriptions of the notebooks using the highest standards of textual practice. Their detailed annotations describe and comment on erased or revised passages, translate Greek and Latin quotations, and identify books and articles referred to in the texts of the notebooks. References to similar passages in Emerson's journals, lectures, and published works are also provided in the annotations. Publication of these notebooks will inable scholars to trace ideas that have gone unnoticed previously. The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1, offers valuable insight into the art and philosophy of one of America's foremost thinkers. These volumes will be an important addition to any personal or institutional library of nine-teenth-century American literature."--Publishers website.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0826208908

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The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0674484797

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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

In the eight regular journals and three miscellaneous notebooks of this volume is the record of fusions. This period of his life closes, as it opened, with 'acquiescence and optimism.'

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674484509

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I: 1819-1822 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man and thinker, will be fully revealed for the first time in this new edition of his journals and notebooks. The old image of the ideal nineteenth-century gentleman, created by editorial omissions of his spontaneous thoughts, is replaced by the picture of Emerson as he really was. His frank and often bitter criticisms of men and society, his "nihilizing," his anguish at the death of his first wife, his bleak struggles with depression and loneliness, his sardonic views of woman, his earthy humor, his ideas of the Negro, of religion, of God--these and other expressions of his private thought and feeling, formerly deleted or subdued, are here restored. Restored also is the full evidence needed for studies of his habits of composition, the development of his style, and the sources of his ideas. Cancelled passages are reproduced, misreadings are corrected, and hitherto unpublished manuscripts are now printed. The text comes as close to a literal transcription as is feasible. A full apparatus of annotation, identification of quotations, and textual notes is supplied. Reproduced in this volume are twelve facsimile manuscript pages, many with Emerson's marginal drawings. The first volume includes some of the "Wide Worlds," journals begun while Emerson was at Harvard, and four contemporary notebooks, mostly unpublished. In these storehouses of quotation, juvenile verse, themes, and stories are the first versions of Emerson's "Valedictory Poem," Bowdoin Prize Essays, and first published work. Together they give a faithful picture of Emerson's apprenticeship as an artist and reveal the extent of his hidden and frustrated ambition--to become a writer.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674484754

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

The twelfth volume makes available nine of Emerson's lecture notebooks, covering a span of twenty-seven years, from 1835 to 1862, from apprenticeship to fame. These notebooks contain materials Emerson collected for the composition of his lectures, articles, and essays during those years.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674484525

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: 1826-1832 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Ralph Waldo Emerson's life from 1826 to 1832 has a classic dramatic structure, beginning with his approbation to preach in October 1826, continuing with his courtship, his brief marriage to Ellen Tucker, and his misery after her death, and concluding with his departure from the ministry. The journals and notebooks of these years are far fewer than those in the preceding six years. Emerson noted down many ideas for sermons in his journals, but as time went on he wrote the sermons independently. Occasionally he wrote openly about family matters, but except for the passionate response to Ellen and her death the journals tell little about the impact upon him of other people and outside events. The pattern is consistent with the earlier journals: Emerson used them mainly to record his thought, to develop and express his ideas. His religious and intellectual interests were undergoing significant changes in orientation or emphasis. He was less concerned with the existence of God than with the nature and influence of Christ. He continued to reassert the truth of Christianity, but in his growing unorthodoxy he came to show less and less sympathy with the church, with forms and ritual, with convention. And he began to wonder whether it is not the worst part of the man that is the minister. During these years, Emerson read more in Madame de Sta l, Wordsworth, G rando, and Coleridge, less in Milton, the Augustans, Dugald Stewart, and Scott. In style, he moved from a rambling, bookish rhetoric to the tautness and the cadences that mark his later Essays.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674484568

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI: 1824-1838 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

One notebook contains Emerson's translations of Goethe; another is devoted to his brother Charles and includes excerpts from Charles's letters to his fiancée. A third contains an interview with a survivor of the battle of Concord and household accounts from just after Emerson's marriage to Lydia Jackson.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,Ralph H. Orth
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015012061415

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The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Ralph H. Orth Pdf

Published here in full are Ralph Waldo Emerson's nine poetry notebooks, the single greatest source of information about his creative habits in poetry. Emerson kept rough drafts, revised versions, and fair copies of hundreds of poems in these notebooks, so that the genesis and development of poems both famous and obscure can be traced closely. The notebooks have been remarkably little consulted, primarily because their unedited textual condition makes them difficult to use. This edition makes them accessible to scholars by presenting a faithful transcription of each notebook, a detailed analysis of the history of each poem, an introduction, and a cross-referenced index. For this edition, the editors have followed the high standards of textual practice developed for Harvard University Press's edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson. That editorial approach makes possible a logical, clear presentation of material that Emerson often jotted down in segments or with multiple erasures and insertions. Because it will allow scholars to examine as never before the many facets of Emerson the poet, The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson will be a major impetus to study of the man considered by many to be America's greates thinker.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:60011554

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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1838-1842 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674484533

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV: 1832-1834 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Ralph Waldo Emerson's decision to quit the ministry, arrived at painfully during the summer and fall of 1832, was accompanied by illness so severe that he was forced to give up any immediate thought of a new career. Instead, in December, he embarked on a tour of Europe that was to take him to Italy, France, Scotland, and England. Within a year after his return in the fall in 1833, his health largely restored, he went to live in the town of Concord, his home from then on. The record of Emerson's ten months in Europe which makes up a large part of this book is unusually detailed and personal, actually a diary recording what Emerson saw and did as well as what he thought. He describes cities, scenes, and buildings that he found striking in one way or another and he gives impressions of the people he met. During his travels he made the acquaintance of Landor, of Lafayette, and of Carlyle, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, all of whom stimulated him. In Paris he was so much stirred by a visit to the Jardin des Plantes that he determined "to become a naturalist." On his return to America, still without a profession, he reverted in his journals to the more impersonal form they had taken in his days as a minister, focusing on his inner experiences rather than on external events. Notes start dotting the pages once again, this time not so much for future sermons--although for years he did a certain amount of occasional preaching as for the addresses of the public lecturer he would soon become. Through the thirty-four months covered by this volume, the journals continue to he the advancing record of Emerson's mind, demonstrating a growing maturity and firmness of style by compression and aphorism.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:60011554

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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1835-1862 by Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Gilman Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3473553

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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1847-1848 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

In the eight regular journals and three miscellaneous notebooks of this volume is the record of fusions. This period of his life closes, as it opened, with 'acquiescence and optimism.'

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076006994953

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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1860-1866 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:60011554

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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843-1847 by Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Gilman Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:60011554

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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1824-1838 by Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Gilman Pdf