Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pages of these five journals covering the years 1843 to 1847 are filled with Ralph Waldo 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674484711
• ISBN13: 9780674484719
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.5"