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.
The second volume prints the exact texts of nine journals and
three notebooks. It reveals the shape of some of Emerson's enduring
interests, in embryo "essays" on the moral sense, moral beauty,
taste, greatness and fame, friendship, compensation, and the unity
of God and the universe. Restored from oblivion are suppressed
passages on the Negro and revelations of acute melancholy and
rebelliousness. These records of his developing thought are also
the history of his early obscurity, when the fame he sought was
still painfully remote.
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