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Ralph Waldo Emerson is internationally renowned as helping to define American identity as we know it. What is less known is the degree to which he has inspired and influenced generations of other internationally celebrated writers and thinkers. Estimating Emerson is the most comprehensive collection yet assembled of the finest minds writing on one of America's finest minds. It serves as both a resource for easily accessing the abundant and profound commentary on Emerson's work and as a compendium of exceptional prose to inspire further thought about his contribution to our thinking. As 'America's Plato,' it is perhaps not surprising that Emerson has drawn a great deal of critical (in both senses of the word) attention. What is surprising, however, is the fact that so much of the attention was given by writers and thinkers as varied as Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, the James brothers, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, George Santayana, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, John Updike, and William Gass. Estimating Emerson collects for the first time the writing of these and many other notable writers as they consider the impact of Emerson on their life and work.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Estimating Emerson
• Author: David LaRocca
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736
• EAN: 9781441164865
• ISBN: 1441164863
• ID: 01238614
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 1092 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 191 × 47 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2013

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