This biography takes a fresh look at Emerson through his Journals to trace the story of his own self-development, and the hidden life's work that makes him as relevant to our time as to his own.

Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

This volume offers the reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for over 50 years.

With Annotations Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes. INDEX Abandonment , continence ... in author , Ix , 8 . Adaptiveness , VII , 61 ; 103 . Addison never knew nature , IV , 259 . Admiration , II , 378 ...

A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes. INDEX Adirondac Club , IX , 159-61 ; IX ... in author , Ix , 8 . Adaptiveness , VII , 61 ; 103 . Addison never knew nature , Iv , 259 . 193 , 194 . Admiration ...

The "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of 19th-century intellectual Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend.

"This book tells the story of their friendship. Harmon Smith emphasizes their personal bond, but also shows how their relationship affected their thought and writing and was in turn influenced by their careers."--BOOK JACKET.

This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a distinguished figure in American letters and restores Helen Hunt Jackson to her rightful place in history.".