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The pages of these five journals covering the years 1843 to 1847 are filled with Emerson's struggle to formulate the true attitude of the scholar to the vexing question of public involvement. Pulled between his belief that a disinterested independence was a requisite for the writer and the public demands heaped upon him as a leading intellectual figure, he notes to himself that he "pounds...tediously" on the "exemption of the writer from all s...

Emerson's life from 1826 to 1832 has a classic dramatic structure, beginning with his approbation to preach in October 1826, continuing with his courtship, his brief marriage to Ellen Tucker, and his misery after her death, and concluding with his departure from the ministry. The journals and notebooks of these years are far fewer than those in the preceding six years. Emerson noted down many ideas for sermons in his journals, but as time went...

Emerson's decision to quit the ministry, arrived at painfully during the summer and fall of 1832, was accompanied by illness so severe that he was forced to give up any immediate thought of a new career. Instead, in December, he embarked on a tour of Europe that was to take him to Italy, France, Scotland, and England. Within a year after his return in the fall in 1833, his health largely restored, he went to live in the town of Concord, his ho...

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 depress...

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 depress...

The journals printed in this volume, covering the years 1852 to 1855, find Emerson increasingly drawn to the issues and realities of the pragmatic, hard-working nineteenth century. His own situation as a middle-aged, property-owning New Englander with a large household to support gave him a strong sense of everyday financial necessity, and his wide reading for his projected book on the English impressed him deeply with the worldly success that...

The editorial information does not dwarf the work being edited, or make the book unwieldy. This volume of the new "Works" will serve all needs, from those of the mythical 'general reader' to the most serious Emerson scholar.

Some of Emerson's most famous essays, such as "Self-Reliance, " "Compensation, " and "The Over-Soul, " appeared in his "Essays of 1841. This edition provides the authoritative text of the "Essays, with an introduction, notes, and supplementary material valuable for studying the evolution of Emerson's thought and style.

Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays--"The Poet, " "Experience, " "Character, " "Manners, " "Gifts, " "Nature, " "Politics, " and "Nominalist and Realist"--and one address, the much misunderstood "New England Reformers." < i>