{"product_id":"9780486170756","title":"The The Heart of Emerson's Journals Heart of Emerson's Journals","description":"“Mr. Bliss Perry has performed his editorial task with great skill and discrimination, and it is now possible to read in a convenient form the intellectual log book of the Concord philosopher, to obtain an informal, but truer picture of Emersonian thought than in the ‘Essays.’”—\u003ci\u003eIndependent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFrom about 1820, when he was 17, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) kept a personal journal. Over the next 55 years, he continued to make entries, recording a wide range of thoughts and impressions about books and authors, religions, his contemporaries, the state of the nation and the world, and a host of other topics. The result was ten volumes of pure Emerson — open and informal, revealing the private man behind the formidable thinker, poet, and leader of the New England Transcendentalists.\u003cbr\u003eFor this volume, Professor Bliss Perry selected, with admirable judgment and a remarkable eye for the telling passage, the best of the journals, offering not only a splendid, revealing record of Emerson’s personal beliefs but also a social and historical record of his age. He has “succeeded in retaining in a single volume both only the best separate passages which their crystalline completeness of construction makes a comparatively simple matter, but, what is more difficult, the unspoiled portrait of Emerson himself.” — \u003ci\u003eOutlook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAny student, scholar, or admirer of Emerson will want to have this concise, well-chosen compilation of his intimate, innermost musings and meditations. It’s a rich opportunity to discover a fascinating, lesser-known dimension of the man known to the public as the Sage of Concord.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105157234928,"sku":"9780486170756","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486170756_p0.jpg?v=1763708811","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486170756","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}