Emerson the man and thinker will be fully revealed for the first
time in this new edition of his journals and notebooks. The old
image of the ideal nineteenth-century gentleman, created by
editorial omissions of his spontaneous thoughts, is replaced by the
picture of Emerson as he really was. His frank and often bitter
criticisms of men and society, his "nihilizing," his anguish at the
death of his first wife, his bleak struggles with depression and
loneliness, his sardonic views of woman, his earthy humor, his
ideas of the Negro, of religion, of God--these and other
expressions of his private thought and feeling, formerly deleted or
subdued, are here restored. Restored also is the full evidence
needed for studies of his habits of composition, the development of
his style, and the sources of his ideas. Cancelled passages are
reproduced, misreadings are corrected, and hitherto unpublished
manuscripts are now printed. The text comes as close to a literal
transcription as is feasible. A full apparatus of annotation,
identification of quotations, and textual notes is supplied.
Reproduced in this volume are twelve facsimile manuscript pages,
many with Emerson's marginal drawings.
The first volume includes some of the "Wide Worlds," journals
begun while Emerson was at Harvard, and four contemporary
notebooks, mostly unpublished. In these storehouses of quotation,
juvenile verse, themes, and stories are the first versions of
Emerson's "Valedictory Poem," Bowdoin Prize Essays, and first
published work. Together they give a faithful picture of Emerson's
apprenticeship as an artist and reveal the extent of his hidden and
frustrated ambition--to become a writer.
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