Essay 5: Emerson
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London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904
EMERSON
Introductory 293 I. Early days 296 Takes charge of an Unitarian Church in Boston (1829) 297 Resigns the charge in 1832 298 Goes to Europe (1833) 299 Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle 300 Settles in Concord (1834) 301 Description of Concord by Clough 301 Death of his first wife 302 Income 303 Hawthorne 305 Thoreau 305 Views on Solitude 306 Effect of his address in the Divinity School of Harvard (1838) 307 Contributes to the Dial (1840) 309 First series of his Essays published in 1841 310 Second series three years later 310 Second visit to England (1847), and delivers lectures on 'Representative Men,' collected and published in 1850 310 Poems first collected in 1847; final version made in 1876 310 Essays and Lectures published in 1860, under general title of The Conduct of Life 310 And the Civil War 310 General retrospect of his life 312 Died April 27, 1882 312 II. Style of his writings 313 Manner as a lecturer 314 Dr. Holmes 314 His use of words 314 Sincerity 316 And Landor 316 Mr. Lowell 316 Description of his library 317 A word or two about his verses 319 III. Hawthorne 322 And Carlyle 323 The friends of Universal Progress in 1840 323 Bossuet 324 Remarks on New England 325 One of the few moral reformers 327 Essays on 'Domestic Life,' on 'Behaviour,' and on 'Manners' 329 Compared to Franklin and Chesterfield 330 Is for faith before works 333 A systematic reasoner 335 The Emersonian faith abundantly justified 337 Carlyle's letter to (June 4, 1871) 337 One remarkable result of his idealism 341 On Death and Sin 342, 344 Conclusion 346