An incisive study of Emerson's personality by an outstanding figure in American belles-lettres & long-time personal friend of the poet & philosopher. With remarkable psychological & literary insight the author throws new light on one of America's most complex literary personalities. Pithy, witty & full of interesting sidelights of Emerson's personality & career especially as they relate to the transcendental movement in 19th century America, this work is indispensable to all literature collections. Originally published in a limited edition of 500 copies.
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The Personality of Emerson." by Frank U Sanborn. with an etching by 1 8. I.. Bmltli from the Scott painting of emitkon. (imfc.) Thv edition will be limited ...
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 | Cambridge - Page 94had composed such a poem, and it may have had a passage in it about Washington; but he had quite forgotten the facts about its delivery in Cambridge. ...more pages: 7 20 34 37 41 49 50 51 61 |
| Boston - Page 65now of Rosemond, Illinois, to hear him read one chapter in his forthcoming English Traits to a small audience in that island ward of Boston. ...more pages: 6 23 39 55 57 59 105 115 121 130 |
| Charleston - Page 125at the time of Samuel Hoar's expulsion from Charleston, but later, in connection with the outbreak of the Civil War, in which, from first to last, ...more pages: 127 |
More | Rome - Page 120George Bradford was miserable in Europe; he had left Rome and gone to Paris without a reason, save that others were going; and now he wished to go ...more pages: 119 |
| Paris - Page 120George Bradford was miserable in Europe; he had left Rome and gone to Paris without a reason, save that others were going; and now he wished to go ...more pages: 5 113 |
| Liverpool - Page 89It was during my first residence in Concord, and while Hawthorne was our consular representative at Liverpool, that I became acquainted through ... |
| New Haven - Page 89that I became acquainted through Emerson with the theories and caprices of Miss Delia Bacon, of New Haven, who may be said to have invented, ... |
| Oxford - Page 53woodlands, on both sides of the pond — meeting, on our way thither, Thomas Cholmondeley, another Oxford scholar, who had followed C lough's example, ...more pages: 49 |
| Keene, New Hampshire - Page 34a few days later, in writing Miss Walker, then at Keene, New Hampshire, who was as ardent an Emersonian and Platonist as myself. ... |
| Edinburgh - Page 8The portrait by David Scott, painted at Edinburgh five years before, erred by giving him a complexion and an eye too.more pages: 41 |
| Exeter - Page 42They had been written at Exeter, two or three years before, and printed in a New Hampshire newspaper, — for which I occasionally wrote, ...more pages: 2 |
| New York - Page 125Ellery Channing, writing from New York in the winter of 1844-45, had inquired of Emerson if the conduct of the "old Squire" (as he was called in ...more pages: 21 22 60 90 91 103 104 |
| Plymouth - Page 98Emerson's own Plymouth wedding in 1835, Sam, as the stable boy, had taken to him at the Old Manse the horse and chaise which was to convey the ...more pages: 41 |
| Waterloo - Page 5from Waterloo to Paris, he resolved to abolish this Assembly. Lafayette heard of it. In the first session afterward he ascended the tribune without ... |
| London - Page 113She had been absent from Concord for nearly three years, and was married in London a year ago. The poem he calls Love's Morrow and it has been written ...more pages: 61 90 |
| Staten Island - Page 21William Emerson was a lawyer of success in New York City, with a house on Staten Island before I knew him, in which Tho- reau lived for a time in 1843 ... |
| Chicago - Page 87mer following J became a member and secretary of the State Kansas Committee, and in that capacity visited the National Committee's office in Chicago, ... |
| Minneapolis - Page 41James Hosmer, the well-known author, now of Minneapolis, myself, and another whose name escapes me. The latest to die was my dear friend, Edwin Morton ... |
| Philadelphia - Page 93But I did not become acquainted with the young clergyman till after my return from Philadelphia (where Anna and Louisa were born) in 1834, ... |
| Whittier - Page 63It seems that the custom of poetry-printing has not much varied since 1854 ; in spite of the popular success of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier, ... |
Popular passagesStanding on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. Page 10 ... that all he sees and says is like astronomy, lying there real and vast — and every part and fact in eternal connection with the whole... Page 76 A Greek head on right Yankee shoulders, whose range Has Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange... Page 12 A SUBTLE chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings ; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose ; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. Page 78 My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather... Page 75 Alcott appeared to great advantage, and I saw again, as often before, his singular superiority. As pure intellect, I have never seen his equal. The people with whom he talks do not even understand him. They interrupt him with clamorous dissent, or what they think verbal endorsement of what they fancy he may have been saying, or with, " Do you know Mr. Alcott, I think thus and so... Page 76 Rank you amongst her stern disfavourers ; She all things worthy favour doth maintain. Virtue in all things else at best she betters, Honour she heightens, and gives life in death. She is the ornament and soul of letters, The world's deceit before her vanisheth. Simple she is as doves, like serpents wise, Sharp, grave, and sacred ; nought but things divine. And things divining, fit her faculties, Accepting her as she is genuine. Page 11 The latter is a hearty man enough, with whom you can differ very satisfactorily, on account of both his doctrines and his good temper. He utters quasi philanthropic dogmas in a metaphysic dress ; but they are for all practical purposes very crude. He charges society with all the crime committed, and praises the criminal for committing it. But I think that all the remedies he suggests out of his head — for he goes no farther, hearty as he is — would leave us about where we are now. Page 28 The people of this town share with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance ; they, like their compatriots, have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and the solidity of his actions. But, as it is the privilege of the people of this town to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country — as Concord is one of the... Page 43 ... Complaining for the Death of her Fawn,' which he read to me with delight irradiating his expressive features. The lines remained with me, or many of them, from that hour, — Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within. "I felt as many have felt after being with his brother, Ralph "Waldo, that I had entertained an angel visitant. The fawn of Marvell's imagination survives in my memory as the fitting image to recall this beautiful youth; a soul glowing like the rose of morning... Page 30 LessContents | 106 | | | | | 108 | | | | | 120 | | | | | 122 | | | | | 124 | | | | | 125 | | | | | 134 | | | | | | | | |
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