First We Read, Then We Write Emerson on the Creative Process

Name: First We Read, Then We Write Emerson on the Creative Process
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ISBN: 9781587297939

ISBN-10: 1587297930

ISBN-13: 9781587297939

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert D. Richardson

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Writing was the central passion of Emersonrsquo;s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in ldquo;The Poet,rdquo; ldquo;The American Scholar,rdquo;Nature, ldquo;Goethe,rdquo; and ldquo;Persian Poetry,rdquo; 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 Sagersquo;s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today. Emerson advised that ldquo;the way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.rdquo;First We Read, Then We Writecontains numerous…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication date: 3/16/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Robert Richardson is an independent scholar who has taught at the University of Denver, Harvard University, and several other schools.