The Resource Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser
Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser
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- Summary
- This comprehensive portrait of Emerson draws from newly available material, including correspondence between the Emerson brothers
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 671 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- "A centennial book"--Half title page
- Contents
-
- [pt. I.] The student : Emerson at Harvard ; The march of mind ; Home and family ; The angel of death ; Scottish common sense ; The brothers Emerson ; The young writer ; The paradise of dictionaries and critics ; Mme. de Staël and the other Germany ; Divinity studies
- [pt. II.] Divinity : Pray without ceasing ; The Prince of Lipona ; The balance beam ; Ellen Tucker ; Ordination and marriage: love and reason ; We are what we know ; Gerando and the first philosophy ; The wreck of earthly good ; In my study my faith is perfect ; Separation ; A terrible freedom
- [pt. III.] The inner light : The American eye ; I will be a naturalist ; A white day in my years ; The instructed eye ; Mary Rotch: life without choice ; A living leaping logos ; A theory of Animated nature ; Each and all ; Confluence
- [pt. IV.] Nature : Lidian ; The new Jerusalem ; The art of writing. Jakob Boehme ; Marriage and Concord ; Alcott and English literature ; All in each: writing nature ; Nature: the laws of the world ; Nature: the apocalypse of the mind ; Margaret Fuller
- [pt. V.] Go alone : The symposium ; The forging of the anchor ; We are not children of time ; The American scholar ; Casting off ; Human culture ; The peace principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears ; Henry Thoreau ; Go alone: refuse the great models
- [pt. VI.] These flying days : New books, new problems ; Jones Very ; The attainable self ; Home and family ; Writing essays ; The heart has its jubilees ; Identity and metamorphosis ; Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller ; Pythagoras and Pliotinus ; Osman's ring: a work of ecstasy ; The frightful hollows of space
- [pt. VII.] Children of the fire : The dream of community ; Children of the fire ; Emerson's Dial ; New views ; The world ; The young American ; Emerson's emancipation address ; Essays on power ; Ex oriente lux
- [pt. VIII.] The natural history of intellect : Representative men ; The lecturer ; Persia and poetry ; The new domestic order. Poems ; The orchard keeper ; I shall never graduate ; England ; The natural history of intellect ; Chartism and revolution
- [pt. IX.] The science of liberty : Return: quarrel with Thoreau ; The Walden Sierras. Quetelet ; Therienism and the Hegelian moment ; The west ; The matter of Margaret ; The tragic ; The conduct of life ; The Fugitive Slave Act ; The science of liberty
- [pt. X.] Fame : My platoon ; Country walking and the sea ; English traits ; Fame ; Whitman ; The remedy at the hour of need ; The power and terror of thought
- [pt. XI.] Endings : Memory ; Civil War. Death of Thoreau ; Terminus ; May day ; Harvard. California. Fire ; Philae and Parnassus ; Fire at the core of the world
- Genealogies
- Chronology of the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Isbn
- 9780520088085
- Label
- Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography
- Title
- Emerson
- Title remainder
- the mind on fire : a biography
- Statement of responsibility
- by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser
- Subject
-
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Biografie
- Biografier
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Biographie
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882) -- Biographies
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882) -- Critique et interprétation
- 1800-1899
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Biography
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge and learning
- Learning and scholarship
- Écrivains américains -- 19e siècle -- Biographies
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Authors, American
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This comprehensive portrait of Emerson draws from newly available material, including correspondence between the Emerson brothers
- Awards note
- Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1996.
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1934-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Richardson, Robert D.
- Dewey number
- 814/.3
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS1631
- LC item number
- .R53 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Authors, American
- Authors, American
- Écrivains américains
- Authors, American
- Learning and scholarship
- Biografie
- Label
- Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser
- Link
- Note
- "A centennial book"--Half title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-656) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- [pt. I.] The student : Emerson at Harvard ; The march of mind ; Home and family ; The angel of death ; Scottish common sense ; The brothers Emerson ; The young writer ; The paradise of dictionaries and critics ; Mme. de Staël and the other Germany ; Divinity studies -- [pt. II.] Divinity : Pray without ceasing ; The Prince of Lipona ; The balance beam ; Ellen Tucker ; Ordination and marriage: love and reason ; We are what we know ; Gerando and the first philosophy ; The wreck of earthly good ; In my study my faith is perfect ; Separation ; A terrible freedom -- [pt. III.] The inner light : The American eye ; I will be a naturalist ; A white day in my years ; The instructed eye ; Mary Rotch: life without choice ; A living leaping logos ; A theory of Animated nature ; Each and all ; Confluence -- [pt. IV.] Nature : Lidian ; The new Jerusalem ; The art of writing. Jakob Boehme ; Marriage and Concord ; Alcott and English literature ; All in each: writing nature ; Nature: the laws of the world ; Nature: the apocalypse of the mind ; Margaret Fuller -- [pt. V.] Go alone : The symposium ; The forging of the anchor ; We are not children of time ; The American scholar ; Casting off ; Human culture ; The peace principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears ; Henry Thoreau ; Go alone: refuse the great models -- [pt. VI.] These flying days : New books, new problems ; Jones Very ; The attainable self ; Home and family ; Writing essays ; The heart has its jubilees ; Identity and metamorphosis ; Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller ; Pythagoras and Pliotinus ; Osman's ring: a work of ecstasy ; The frightful hollows of space -- [pt. VII.] Children of the fire : The dream of community ; Children of the fire ; Emerson's Dial ; New views ; The world ; The young American ; Emerson's emancipation address ; Essays on power ; Ex oriente lux -- [pt. VIII.] The natural history of intellect : Representative men ; The lecturer ; Persia and poetry ; The new domestic order. Poems ; The orchard keeper ; I shall never graduate ; England ; The natural history of intellect ; Chartism and revolution -- [pt. IX.] The science of liberty : Return: quarrel with Thoreau ; The Walden Sierras. Quetelet ; Therienism and the Hegelian moment ; The west ; The matter of Margaret ; The tragic ; The conduct of life ; The Fugitive Slave Act ; The science of liberty -- [pt. X.] Fame : My platoon ; Country walking and the sea ; English traits ; Fame ; Whitman ; The remedy at the hour of need ; The power and terror of thought -- [pt. XI.] Endings : Memory ; Civil War. Death of Thoreau ; Terminus ; May day ; Harvard. California. Fire ; Philae and Parnassus ; Fire at the core of the world -- Genealogies -- Chronology of the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Control code
- ocm31206668
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 671 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780520088085
- Lccn
- 94036008
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o31206668
- (OCoLC)31206668
- Label
- Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser
- Link
- Note
- "A centennial book"--Half title page
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-656) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- [pt. I.] The student : Emerson at Harvard ; The march of mind ; Home and family ; The angel of death ; Scottish common sense ; The brothers Emerson ; The young writer ; The paradise of dictionaries and critics ; Mme. de Staël and the other Germany ; Divinity studies -- [pt. II.] Divinity : Pray without ceasing ; The Prince of Lipona ; The balance beam ; Ellen Tucker ; Ordination and marriage: love and reason ; We are what we know ; Gerando and the first philosophy ; The wreck of earthly good ; In my study my faith is perfect ; Separation ; A terrible freedom -- [pt. III.] The inner light : The American eye ; I will be a naturalist ; A white day in my years ; The instructed eye ; Mary Rotch: life without choice ; A living leaping logos ; A theory of Animated nature ; Each and all ; Confluence -- [pt. IV.] Nature : Lidian ; The new Jerusalem ; The art of writing. Jakob Boehme ; Marriage and Concord ; Alcott and English literature ; All in each: writing nature ; Nature: the laws of the world ; Nature: the apocalypse of the mind ; Margaret Fuller -- [pt. V.] Go alone : The symposium ; The forging of the anchor ; We are not children of time ; The American scholar ; Casting off ; Human culture ; The peace principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears ; Henry Thoreau ; Go alone: refuse the great models -- [pt. VI.] These flying days : New books, new problems ; Jones Very ; The attainable self ; Home and family ; Writing essays ; The heart has its jubilees ; Identity and metamorphosis ; Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller ; Pythagoras and Pliotinus ; Osman's ring: a work of ecstasy ; The frightful hollows of space -- [pt. VII.] Children of the fire : The dream of community ; Children of the fire ; Emerson's Dial ; New views ; The world ; The young American ; Emerson's emancipation address ; Essays on power ; Ex oriente lux -- [pt. VIII.] The natural history of intellect : Representative men ; The lecturer ; Persia and poetry ; The new domestic order. Poems ; The orchard keeper ; I shall never graduate ; England ; The natural history of intellect ; Chartism and revolution -- [pt. IX.] The science of liberty : Return: quarrel with Thoreau ; The Walden Sierras. Quetelet ; Therienism and the Hegelian moment ; The west ; The matter of Margaret ; The tragic ; The conduct of life ; The Fugitive Slave Act ; The science of liberty -- [pt. X.] Fame : My platoon ; Country walking and the sea ; English traits ; Fame ; Whitman ; The remedy at the hour of need ; The power and terror of thought -- [pt. XI.] Endings : Memory ; Civil War. Death of Thoreau ; Terminus ; May day ; Harvard. California. Fire ; Philae and Parnassus ; Fire at the core of the world -- Genealogies -- Chronology of the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Control code
- ocm31206668
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 671 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780520088085
- Lccn
- 94036008
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o31206668
- (OCoLC)31206668
Subject
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
- Biografie
- Biografier
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Biographie
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882) -- Biographies
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882) -- Critique et interprétation
- 1800-1899
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Biography
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge and learning
- Learning and scholarship
- Écrivains américains -- 19e siècle -- Biographies
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Authors, American
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