Emerson
Subtitle: The Mind on Fire
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 5, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9780520088085
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: 19th century; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Literary; Biography / Autobiography; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Biography & Autobiography; American English; English; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; American authors; 1803-1882; 19th century; Authors, American; Biography; Emerson, Ralph Waldo,; Knowledge and learning
First sentence: ON MARCH 29, 1832, THE TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD EMERSON visited the tomb of his young wife, Ellen, who had been buried a year and two months earlier.