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Emerson, the mind on fire : a biography, by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-656) and index

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by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser

the mind on fire : a biography

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

[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