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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the seminal figures in American intellectual history, literature, and culture. In his time he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement; his poetic legacy stretches from Walt Whitman to Allen Ginsberg; his educational ideals have been embraced by many; and his religious concepts greatly influenced the development of the Unitarian (later Unitarian Universalist) church.

鈥淚 can't imagine a better source in one volume for the biographer, critic, or student of Emerson. Emerson in His Own Time is a treasury of fascinating anecdotes, many of them not generally known.鈥濃擩erome Loving

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Introduction
Chronology
Amos Bronson Alcott, [A Visit to Emerson at Concord in 1837]
Convers Francis, [Remarks on Emerson in 1838, 1855, and 1858]
Ellis Gray Loring, [A Visit from Emerson in 1838]
[Annie Sawyer Downs], [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840s]
Richard Frederick Fuller, 鈥淭he Younger Generation in 1840 from the Diary of a New England Boy鈥
[Margaret Fuller], [At Concord with the Emersons in 1842]
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle, [A Visit from Emerson in 1847]
Anonymous, 鈥淓merson as a Lecturer鈥 (1849)
Herman Melville, [Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck about Emerson as a Lecturer] (1849)
Fredrika Bremer, From The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America (1853)
[Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], 鈥淢r. Emerson鈥檚 Lectures鈥 (1864)
[George William Curtis], [Emerson as Seen from the 鈥淓ditor鈥檚 Easy Chair鈥 in 1865]
Anonymous, 鈥淩alph Waldo Emerson鈥 (1865)
James Russell Lowell, From My Study Windows (1871)
Bronson Alcott, 鈥淔uller, Thoreau, Emerson鈥. The Substance of a 鈥楥onversation鈥欌 (1871)
Anna Alcott Pratt, Louisa May Alcott, and Ellen Tucker Emerson, [鈥淗ouse burned, Wednesday, 24 July (1872)鈥漖
Anonymous, 鈥淓merson: A Literary Interview鈥 (1874)
Octavius Brooks Frothingham, From Transcendentalism in New England: A History (1876)
Walt Whitman, From Prose Works 1892 (1881-1882)
Ellen Tucker Emerson, [Emerson鈥檚 Death] (1882)
Louisa May Alcott, 鈥淩eminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson鈥 (1882)
Frederic Henry Hedge, [Reminiscences of Emerson] (1882)
[Edwin Percy Whipple], 鈥淪ome Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson鈥 (1882)
Julia Ward Howe and Ednah Dow Cheney, From Concord Lectures on Philosophy鈥 at the Concord School of Philosophy in 1882
A. B. Muzzey, From Reminiscences and Memorials of the Men of the Revolution and Their Families (1883)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, From Ralph Waldo Emerson (1884)
Pendleton King, 鈥淣otes of Conversations with Emerson鈥 (1884)
[Annie Adams Fields], 鈥淕limpses of Emerson鈥 (1884)
Frank Bellew, 鈥淩ecollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson鈥 (1884)
E. P. Peabody, 鈥淓merson as Preacher鈥 (1885)
Edward Waldo Emerson, Ellen Tucker Emerson, and Edith Emerson Forbes, [Emerson as Remembered by His Children] (1889 and 1897, 1902, 1921)
Charles J. Woodbury, From Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1890)
Francis Espinasse, From Literary Recollections and Sketches (1893)
William Henry Furness, 鈥淩andom Reminiscences of Emerson鈥 (1893)
W. J. Stillman, 鈥淭he Philosophers鈥 Camp. Emerson, Agassiz, Lowell, and Others in the Adirondacks鈥 (1893)
William Dean Howells, 鈥淢y First Visit to New England鈥 (1894)
Frank Preston Stearns, From Sketches from Concord and Appledore (1895)
Rebecca Harding Davis, 鈥淎 Little Gossip鈥 (1900)
John Muir, [Emerson in the Yosemite Valley] (1901)
William James and Caroline Hazard, From The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903)
Julian Hawthorne, 鈥淧ersonal Glimpses of Emerson鈥 (1903)
Moncure D. Conway, 鈥淓merson: The Teacher and the Man鈥 (1903)
Daniel Chester French, 鈥淎 Sculptor鈥檚 Reminiscences of Emerson鈥 (1916)
Robert Underwood Johnson, From Remembered Yesterdays (1923)
Kate Douglas Wiggin, From My Garden of Memory: An Autobiography (1923)
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 鈥淩ecollections of Emerson, His Household and Friends鈥 (1924)
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Publication Date
04/25/2003
Pages, art, trim size
320 pages, 17 photos, 12 drawings
Edition
1st