
First We Read, Then We Write
Emerson on the Creative Process
Robert D. Richardson(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Published on 1. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-60938-347-3 (ISBN)
Description
Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in "The Poet," "The American Scholar," Nature, "Goethe," and "Persian Poetry," less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage's energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today.
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English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
143 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-347-3 (9781609383473)
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Robert D. Richardson is the author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, which won the 2007 Bancroft Prize, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, which won both the Francis Parkman Prize and the Melcher Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, which also won the Melcher Book Award.