The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ralph L. Rusk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rusk, Ralph L., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1949]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by letting his story unfold as told through his words and those of his contemporaries as they did in life. From early childhood through his first love and his work as an author and philosopher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. Prologue: William and Ruth Emerson

2. Boston, 1803

3. Looking Out from His Corner

4. A Boy's Troubled World

5. Concord Ghosts and Others

6. Banishing Dullness from His Mind

7. Under the Tree of Knowledge

8. The Unwilling Schoolmaster

9. The Prized Gown and Band

10. Ellen

11. Theses Nailed to the Church Door

12. A Fool's Paradise

13. A Thinker Let Loose

14. Lidian

15. Pan and Other Gods

16. This Age, This Country, Oneself

17. The Dial and the Essays

18. Leaping and Piercing Melodies

19. Not a World to Hide Virtues In

20. Down from His Ivory Tower

21. Things in the Saddle

22. The Fierce Storm of War

23. The Firmament Shrinks to a Tent

24. Voyage to the Island of Philae

25. Terminus

Notes

Index and Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89521-6

OCLC:

1100464503