Ralph Waldo Emerson eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 403 pages of information about Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 403 pages of information about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
    a great quoter, no pedantry, 381;
    list of authors referred to, 381, 382;
    special indebtedness, 382;
    penetration, borrowing, 383;
    method of writing and its results, aided by others, 384;
    sayings that seem family property, 385;
    passages compared, 385-387;
    the tributary streams, 388;
    accuracy as to facts, 388;
    personalities traceable in him, 389;
    place as a thinker, 390;
    Platonic anecdote, 391;
    preexistence, 391, 392;
    mind-moulds, 393;
    relying on instinct, 394;
    dangers of intuition, 395;
    mysticism, 396;
    Oriental side, 397;
    transcendental mood, 398;
    personal identity confused, 399;
    a distorting mirror, 400;
    distrust of science, 401-403;
    style illustrated, 403, 404;
    favorite words, 405;
    royal imagery, 406;
    comments on America, 406, 407;
    common property of mankind, 407;
    public spirit, solitary workshop, martyrdom from visitors, 408;
    white shield invulnerable, 409;
    religious attitude, 409-411;
    spiritual influx, creed, 412;
    clerical relations, 413;
    Dr. Hague’s criticism, 413, 414;
    ameliorating religious influence, 414;
    freedom, 415;
    enduring verse and thought, 416, 417;
    comparison with Jesus, 417;
    sincere manhood, 418;
    transparency, 419.

  Emerson’s Books:—­
    Conduct of Life, 229, 237. 
    English Traits: 
      the first European trip, 62;
      published, 214;
      analysis, 214-220;
      penetration, 383;
      Teutonic fire, 386. 
    Essays: 
      Dickens’s allusion, 156;
      collected, 166. 
    Essays, second series, 183. 
    Lectures and Biographical Sketches, 128, 295, 296, 347. 
    Letters and Social Aims, 210, 283, 284, 296. 
    May-day and Other Pieces, 161, 192, 224, 242, 257, 310, 318, 346. 
    Memoir of Margaret Fuller, 209. 
    Miscellanies, 302, 303. 
    Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, 179. 
    Nature: 
      resemblance of extracts from Mary Moody Emerson, 17;
      where written, 70;
      the Many in One, 73;
      first published, 91, 92, 373;
      analysis, 93-107;
      obscure, 108;
      Beauty, 237. 
    Parnassus: 
      collected, 280;
      Preface, 314;
      allusion, 321. 
    Poems, 293, 310, 318, 339. 
    Representative Men, 196-209. 
    Selected Poems, 311, 347. 
    Society and Solitude, 250.

  Emerson’s Essays, Lectures, Sermons, Speeches, etc.:—­
    In general: 
      essays, 73, 88, 91, 92, 310;
      income from lectures, 176, 191, 192;
      lectures in England, 194-196;
      long series, 372;
      lecture-room, 374;
      plays and lectures, 375;
      double duty, 376, 377;
      charm, 379. 

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