The Spiritual Emerson
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by David M. Robinson
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by David M. Robinson
Category: Biography & Memoir | Religion | Spiritual Nonfiction
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$21.00
Apr 15, 2004 | ISBN 9780807077191
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‘A guided anthology that takes the reader through Emerson’s own spiritual evolution.’–Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire
‘It is a great service of this book that it traces [Emerson’s] spiritual development . . . [It] is also valuable in establishing the full texture and subtlety of Emerson’s much-misunderstood notion of self-reliance and nonconformity.’–Richard Higgins, Boston Globe
‘This collection brings together for the first time Emerson’s most important writings on spiritual themes, along with a discerning and eminently readable introduction by one of the foremost authorities on Emerson’s religious thought.’–Lawrence Buell, Harvard University, author of Literary Transcendentalism and Emerson