The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson / / Ralph L. Rusk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Rusk, Ralph L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1949]; ©1949
• Year of Publication: 1949
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; 1. Prologue: William and Ruth Emerson --; 2. Boston, 1803 --; 3. Looking Out from His Corner --; 4. A Boy's Troubled World --; 5. Concord Ghosts and Others --; 6. Banishing Dullness from His Mind --; 7. Under the Tree of Knowledge --; 8. The Unwilling Schoolmaster --; 9. The Prized Gown and Band --; 10. Ellen --; 11. Theses Nailed to the Church Door --; 12. A Fool's Paradise --; 13. A Thinker Let Loose --; 14. Lidian --; 15. Pan and Other Gods --; 16. This Age, This Country, Oneself --; 17. The Dial and the Essays --; 18. Leaping and Piercing Melodies --; 19. Not a World to Hide Virtues In --; 20. Down from His Ivory Tower --; 21. Things in the Saddle --; 22. The Fierce Storm of War --; 23. The Firmament Shrinks to a Tent --; 24. Voyage to the Island of Philae --; 25. Terminus --; Notes --; Index and Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231895217; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/rusk93740
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ralph L. Rusk.

Presents the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by letting his story unfold as told through his words and those of his contemporaries as they did in life. From early childhood through his first love and his work as an author and philosopher.