A Year with Emerson: A Daybook [Hardcover]

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Richard Grossman (Editor), Barry Moser (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2003

A cheif event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us. A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days, designed to celebrate the bicentenary of the Sage of Concord.

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Handsomely produced and brilliantly edited, A Year with Emerson is a feast for the active mind. --Justin Kaplan

Vivid ... vital ... altogether fresh. --Richard Howard

Vivid ... vital ... altogether fresh. --Richard Howard --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Richard Grossman is a psychotherapist, medical educator, essayist, and former publisher who has been reading and studying Emerson for over forty years. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticut. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 231 pages
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher; 1 edition (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567922341
• ISBN-13: 978-1567922349
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #514,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

There are few people as quoted and quotable as Ralph Waldo Emerson, founder of the transcendental movement and author of classic essays as Self-Reliance, Nature, and The American Scholar. Emerson began his career as a Unitarian minister and later put those oratory skills to move us toward a better society. More remains written on him than by him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Snacking on Emerson, May 13, 2009

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I like year books where you have some worthwhile thoughts given to you each day that connect together to build up themes and an overall view. This year book differs from some, because it is not merely philosophical, it is also historical. You get the flavor of the person, how he felt about nature, and the environment and times that he lived in. There are ink prints in the book based on some wonderful engravings that introduce each month, the detail on these is really amazing, some of them are of animals, mainly birds, and others are of the landscape. One, which is on the dust jacket is a profile of Emerson. It gives the book a classic feel. I recommend this book for someone who wants to get a sample of how Emerson felt about many things, his writing style, and his thoughts. It is a little like a stream of consciousness poem that reveals much. It is not merely an introduction to the philosopher, but a way of remembering the revelant highlights of his thinking. I suspect you could deduce the rest of what his other writings are about from these high potency capsules of his thinking.