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Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whicher, Stephen E.

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1512820180
ISBN13: 9781512820188
Publisher: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
Published: Jan 29 1953
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Stephen Whicher's Freedom and Fate begins with a tribute to Ralph Rusk's monumental biography The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, acknowledging its supremacy as a factual telling of Emerson's life that cannot be surpassed. Whicher's book aims to be a complement to the painstakingly researched outer life of Emerson by focusing on the great sage's inner life--not just his intellectual biography but the very nature of his thinking.

Whicher stresses the life of spectator-ship that the young Emerson, perpetually ill as he turned out to be, was condemned to. His writings, especially his private thoughts recorded in his journals, document the ebb and flow of his spirit, alternatively listless and resolute.

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