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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.'

"As 'America's Plato, ' it is perhaps not surprising that Emerson has drawn a great deal of critical (in both senses of the word) attention. What is surprising, however, is the fact that so much of the attention was given by writers and thinkers as varied as Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, the James brothers, Walt Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, George Santayana, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, John Updike, and William Gass. Estimating Emerson...

This collection presents the letters, essays, and poems of the celebrated American writer and provides running commentaries to help shed light on particular passages and examine the writer's motives and style. A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism ("Our moods do not believe in each other"; "Money often costs too much"), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He challenged Americans to shut their ears against Europe's "courtly muses" and...

Ralph Waldo Emerson remains a central literary voice of American culture because he gave lasting expression to its most fundamental and widely shared liberal values. Liberalism is a form of civilization, a set of values, a culture, a way of representing and living in the world. This is an exposition of Emerson's writings as a contribution to the theory and practice of liberal culture. It looks at Emerson's body of work within the classical liberal...

Surveys Emerson's life and literary significance within the context of nineteenth-century American culture, discusses the Transcendental movement, and critically examines Emerson's poems and essays.

This comprehensive portrait of Emerson draws from newly available material, including correspondence between the Emerson brothers.

With Selected journals 1820-1842 and its companion volume Selected journals 1841-1877, the Library of America presents the most ample and comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's work ever published--one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts and preserves the range of his style in long, uninterrupted passages, but without the daunting critical apparatus of the 16-volume scholarly edition. Selected journals 1820-1842...