Arctic Habits
Tony Tanner, 25 May 1995
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert Richardson.
California, 668 pp., £27, June 1995,0 520 08808 5 Show More
by Robert Richardson.
California, 668 pp., £27, June 1995,
“... Of course, some of the reading is important: Emerson’s struggle with Hume; his discovery of Plato (though ‘Emerson found Plato the way Schliemann found Troy’ strikes me as a comically portentous way of putting it); the effect of Rousseau; the crucial influence of Carlyle; the inspiration of Goethe; his attraction ... ”