A Year With Emerson

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• Intellectual Snacking on Emerson  May 13, 2009 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

  I like year books where you have some worthwhile thoughts given to you each day that connect together to build up themes and an overall view. This year book differs from some, because it is not merely philosophical, it is also historical. You get the flavor of the person, how he felt about nature, and the environment and times that he lived in. There are ink prints in the book based on some wonderful engravings that introduce each month, the detail on these is really amazing, some of them are of animals, mainly birds, and others are of the landscape. One, which is on the dust jacket is a profile of Emerson. It gives the book a classic feel. I recommend this book for someone who wants to get a sample of how Emerson felt about many things, his writing style, and his thoughts. It is a little like a stream of consciousness poem that reveals much. It is not merely an introduction to the philosopher, but a way of remembering the revelant highlights of his thinking. I suspect you could deduce the rest of what his other writings are about from these high potency capsules of his thinking.