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Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV - 1860-1866 (Hardcover): Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV - 1860-1866 (Hardcover)
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Linda Allardt, David W. Hill, Ruth H. Bennett
R3,774 R3,393 Discovery Miles 33 930 Save R381 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Civil War is a pervasive presence in the journals in this volume. "The war searches character," Emerson wrote. Both his reading and his writing reflected his concern for the endurance of the nation, whose strength lay in the moral strength of the people. He read military biographies and memoirs, while turning again to Persian, Chinese, and Indian literature. The deaths of Clough, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and his aunt Mary Moody Emerson prompted him to reread their letters and journals, remembering and reappraising.

These were stirring, poignant years for Emerson. The times were hard, his lecturing was curtailed, and a new book seemed out of the question. He felt the losses, fears, and frustrations that come to those who believe in a cause they are too old to fight for. But his respected position as a man of letters brought him some unusual experiences, such as a trip to Washington in which he met President Lincoln, Secretaries Seward and Chase, and other key figures in the government. Inspecting West Point as a member of the Board of Visitors, he was deeply impressed by the character and spartan training of the cadets who were soon to see action.

At the war's end, busy again with a heavy lecture schedule and feeling his age a little, he took a long look back at the conflict and concluded that war "heals a deeper wound than any it makes."

Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII - 1835-1862 (Hardcover): Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII - 1835-1862 (Hardcover)
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Linda Allardt
R3,803 R3,421 Discovery Miles 34 210 Save R382 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In faithfully reproducing all of Emerson's handwritten journals and notebooks, this edition is succeeding in revealing Emerson the man and the thinker. The old image of the ideal nineteenth-century gentleman, created by editorial omission of his spontaneous thoughts, is replaced by the picture of Emerson as he really was. His frank and often bitter criticisms of men and societym his "nihilizing," his views of women, 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 developement of his style, and the sources of his ideas. Canceled passages are reproduced, misreadings are corrected, and hiterto unpublished manuscripts are now printed.

Here is the twelfth volume, which makes available nine of Emerson's lecture notebooks, covering a span of twenty-seven years, from 1835 to 1862, from apprenticeship to fame.

These notebooks contain materials Emerson collected for the composition of his lectures, articles, and essays during those years, a complex mixture of indexlike surveys of his journals, lists of possible topics and titles, salvaged journals passages and revisions, new drafts ranging from brief paragraphs to several pages in length, notes and translations from his reading, working notes, and partial outlines. In them we see Emerson at work, balancing his aspirations as orator and writer against the practicalities of deadlines, finances, and audiences.

The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hardcover, First Edition, Reissue ed.): Ralph Waldo Emerson The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hardcover, First Edition, Reissue ed.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Ralph H. Orth, Albert J.Von Frank, Linda Allardt, David W. Hill
R2,021 Discovery Miles 20 210 Out of stock
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