Emerson The Mind on Fire Paperback - 1995
by Robert D. Richardson Jr. And Barry Moser
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example influence readers to this day. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, this award-winning book brings to life an Emerson very different from the stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord, providing a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. 26 photos.
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- Title Emerson The Mind on Fire
- Author Robert D. Richardson Jr. And Barry Moser
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; Fifth Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good-
- Pages 684
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # TOB220-39895-A-1.5
- ISBN 9780520206892 / 0520206894
- Weight 2.15 lbs (0.98 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 4.83 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
"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 of The 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 man--not just a thinker--to life."--David M. Robinson, author of Emerson 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 of Emerson'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
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times, 10/27/1996, Page 48
