A Year with Emerson

Arranged for daily inspiration wisdom from one of Americas great visionary and philosophical minds. A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us. A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent epigrammatic writing admired as the George Washington of American Literature his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emersons ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world but all are unfailingly wise still relevant to our modern times. Emersons mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered from Lincoln to John Muir from Carlyle to Montaigne and of course the close New England circle of Hawthorne Thoreau Margaret Fuller and the Alcotts. With company such as this and the scope of Emersons vision youre sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year.