The Heart of Emerson’s Journals

Carefully selected passages from 55 years of journal entries: thoughts, religious sentiments, impressions of books, authors, contemporaries, much more. Splendid, revealing record of Emerson’s personal beliefs, as well as a social and historical record of his age. ＂Beyond all doubt this . . . volume will extend the sphere of Emerson’s influence.＂ — Springfield Republican. Biographical notes.