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A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This meditation collection will provide an opportunity to celebrate and re-evaluate Emerson's contribution to America's spiritual history.
Emerson

Emerson

Lawrence BUELL

Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition Emerson lived during a time of intense national growing pains. U.S. territory expanded, its population grew, and governmental institutions changed more wrenchingly during his working life  ...
The Bennett Exchange Newsletter

The Bennett Exchange Newsletter

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PAR otsego, ny Marriage from Bible - Seth GREGORY to Irene BENNETT 1809 Member of Otsego Bapt. ... Cooperstown, Mrs. Samantha BENNETT, in 30 yrs. consort of Joseph BENNETT 2 Jul 1801, son of Micaiah BENNETT of Burlington 17 May 1806, infant child of Tamny BENNETT, ... Joseph BENNETT of Cooperstown to Mary FARNUM of Cheshire, MA d/o late Jonathan FARNUM by Rev Miiston.
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell

This book is Stanley Cavell_s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known.
The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These final volumes contain some of Emerson's most timelessly relevant work and are sure to engage and inform any reader interested in discovering one of our country's greatest intellectuals.
One Bennett Clan and One Collins Clan

One Bennett Clan and One Collins Clan

Alene C. Bennett

Section I-A-l James L. Bennett (1930- ) James L. Bennett's generation is sixth in this Bennett Clan. His children are seventh and his grandchildren are the eighth generation. James L. Bennett, born 13 August 1930 at Temple, Louisiana, Vernon ...
Annual Report ... with Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

Annual Report ... with Proceedings of the Annual Meeting

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Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Laurie Lanzen Harris

The collected letters of Emerson and Thoreau. Spiller, Robert E. "The Four Faces of Emerson." In Four Makers of the American Mind: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, A Bicentennial Tribute, edited by Thomas Edward Crawley, pp.
The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

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Stephen L. Esquith's "Power, Poise, and Place: Toward an Emersonian Theory of Democratic Citizenship" explores Emerson's legacy in relation to a resurgence of interest in citizenship among political theorists. By drawing on recent ...
The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The occasional "Address on Education," which Emerson delivered between these two series, may be seen as a link between them. Of the twenty-three lectures in this volume, only three have been previously published.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph ...
Mike Fink: A Legend of the Ohio

Mike Fink: A Legend of the Ohio

Emerson Bennett

Relates episodes in the life of Mike Fink, an early 19th century boatman who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and grew to legendary status due to his prowess with fists and firearms.
Scribner's Magazine ...

Scribner's Magazine ...

Edward Livermore Burlingame

430 THE UNWANTED Dorothy Collins Alyea . 400 WITCH'S BREW Margaret Emerson Bailey 144 SAN FRANCISCO Dorothy Bennett . . . 602 PEKING-HAT AMEN GATE Thomas Jeffries Betts 476 TREASURE SHIPS Samuel H. Bryant .
The Emerson Society Quarterly

The Emerson Society Quarterly

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Such private delight supports Paul Hourihan's thesis that Emerson thought the roles of novel-reader and sage incompatible and chose to hide the one in favor of cultivating the public image of the other. Such ambivalence in his appreciation of  ...
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

Branka Arsić

In his essay âeoeCompensation,âe Emerson makes a surprising claim: âeoeEvery soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its ...
The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

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JOSHUA DAVID BELLIN The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (EmCW 11:61) When Emerson delivered these words on September 12, 1835, to commemorate Concord's ...
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joel Porte

A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.
EMERSON

EMERSON

Lawrence BUELL

In this book Lawrence Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, ...
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

A detailed report on land litigation involving the Pueblo Indians, written as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin

The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin

Caryl Emerson

"Caryl Emerson has given us a major book on a major phenomenon, as readable as it is important, one that moves authoritatively from biography through literary and philosophical analysis to the cultural frameworks in which those matters take ...
John Bennett Greatest Hits

John Bennett Greatest Hits

John Bennett

Publisher's Position Statement on the Value of Poetry Arts This chapbook is limited edition fine art from the poet John Bennett whose work it is your fortune to support for a few cents per page. This poetry is underpriced. You are not buying ...
American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner: Emerson, Thoreau, ...

American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner: Emerson, Thoreau, ...

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contributed by Becky Gould, professor of religion and ecology at Middlebury College; and a foreword by Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson UnitarianUniversalist Professor, Harvard Divinity School. I am gratefultoMatthew DavidSegall, ...
Imperial Palace (Arnold Bennett) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

Imperial Palace (Arnold Bennett) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

Arnold Bennett

Literary Thoughts edition presents Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett ------ "Imperial Palace" is not only the last, but also the longest novel by English writer Arnold Bennett (1867–1931, full name: Enoch Arnold Bennett).
Sacred and Profane Love by Arnold Bennett - Delphi Classics ...

Sacred and Profane Love by Arnold Bennett - Delphi Classics ...

Arnold Bennett

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Sacred and Profane Love by Arnold Bennett - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Arnold Bennett’.

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