Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts,
in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year
Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His
principal publications includeNature(1836),two volumes
ofEssays(1841, 1844),Poems(1847),Representative Men(1850),The
Conduct of Life(1860), andSociety and Solitude(1870).
Lawrence Rosenwald, editor, is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of
American Literature at Wellesley College and the author ofEmerson
and the Art of the Diary.
“For several months I have been camping out in the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a companionable, familiar, and yet endlessly stimulating place, and, since his mind his stronger than mine, I keep referring to his wisdom, even his doubts, and quite shamelessly identifying with him. All this started when I came across in a local bookstore the new, two-volume edition of his Selected Journals, published by The Library of America, and I decided to give it a whirl. Some 1,900 pages later, I am in thrall to, in love with, Mr. Emerson.” —Phillip Lopate, Harper’s Magazine
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