Emerson by Richardson-Jr., Robert D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Frontispiece Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Epigraph Illustrations The Student

1. Prologue 2. Emerson at Harvard 3. The March of Mind 4. Home and Family 5. The Angel of Death 6. Scottish Common Sense 7. The Brothers Emerson 8. The Young Writer 9. The Paradise of Dictionaries and Critics 10. Mme. de Stael and the Other Germany. Divinity Studies

Divinity

11. Pray without Ceasing 12. The Prince of Lipona 13. The Balance Beam 14. Ellen Tucker 15. Ordination and Marriage: Love and Reason 16. We Are What We Know 17. Gerando and the First Philosophy 18. The Wreck of Earthly Good 19. In My Study My Faith Is Perfect 20. Separation 21. A Terrible Freedom

The Inner Light

22. The American Eye 23. I Will Be a Naturalist 24. A White Day in My Years 25. The Instructed Eye 26. Mary Rotch: Life without Choice 27. A Living Leaping Logos 28. A Theory of Animated Nature 29. Each and All 30. Confluence

Nature

31. Lidian 32. The New Jerusalem 33. The Art of Writing. Jakob Boehme 34. Marriage and Concord 35. Alcott and English Literature 36. All in Each: Writing Nature 37. Nature: The Laws of the World 38. Nature: The Apocalypse of the Mind 39. Margaret Fuller

Go Alone

40. The Symposium 41. The Forging of the Anchor 42. We Are Not Children of Time 43. The American Scholar 44. Casting Off 45. Human Culture 46. The Peace Principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears 47. Henry Thoreau 48. Go Alone: Refuse the Great Models

These Flying Days

49. New Books, New Problems 50. Jones Very 51. The Attainable Self 52. Home and Family 53. Writing Essays 54. The Heart Has Its Jubilees 55. Identity and Metamorphosis 56. Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller 57. Pythagoras and Plotinus 58. Osman's Ring: A Work of Ecstasy 59. The Frightful Hollows of Space

Children of Fire

60. The Dream of Community 61. Children of the Fire 62. Emerson's Dial 63. New Views 64. The World 65. The Young American 66. Emerson's Emancipation Address 67. Essays on Power 68. Ex Oriente Lux

The Natural History of Intellect

69. Representative Men 70. The Lecturer 71. Persia and Poetry 72. The New Domestic Order. Poems 73. The Orchard Keeper 74. I Shall Never Graduate 75. England 76. The Natural History of Intellect 77. Chartism and Revolution

The Science of Liberty

78. Return: Quarrel with Thoreau 79. The Walden Sierras. Quetelet 80. Therienism and the Hegelian Moment 81. The West 82. The Matter of Margaret 83. The Tragic 84. The Conduct of Life 85. The Fugitive Slave Act 86. The Science of Liberty

Fame

87. My Platoon 88. Country Walking and the Sea 89. English Traits 90. Fame 91. Whitman 92. The Remedy at the Hour of Need 93. The Power and Terror of Thought

Endings

94. Memory 95. Civil War. Death of Thoreau 96. Terminus 97. May-Day 98. Harvard. California. Fire 99. Philae and Parnassus 100. Fire at the Core of the World

Genealogies Chronology of the Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson Principal Sources Notes Index