II. The kaleidoscopic Emerson. (Bicentennial Essays: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)).(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

From: Modern Age | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Birnbaum, Milton | Copyright information

JUST WHEN INTEREST in Emerson seems to wane, he rises like the proverbial phoenix. In the 1990's, at least two books (not to mention the ceaseless flow of articles and doctoral dissertations) concerning Emerson were published: Robert D. Richardson, Jr.'s Emerson: the Mind on Fire (1995) and Carlos Baker's Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait (1852). Richardson's subtitle is uniquely appropriate. It indicates that sparks from Emerson's "mind on fire," like those from any f...

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