Books by Joel Porte
“For Emerson, keeping a journal functioned in many different ways. The journals were, first of all, a laboratory for all of his mature writing, a place where he would try out things. They were also a commonplace book. Last but not least, they were a window into an intimate side of Emerson that he would never, ever expose in his published writings.” Read more...
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Marcus, Journalist
Interviews where books by Joel Porte were recommended
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire
by Robert D Richardson -
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Emerson: Essays and Lectures
by Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Emerson in His Journals
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joel Porte (editor) -
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Emerson in His Own Time
Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (editors) -
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One First Love
by Ellen Louisa Tucker & Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson, recommended by James Marcus
The best books on Ralph Waldo Emerson, recommended by James Marcus
Known to many of us as the American Transcendentalist champion of individualism and self-reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson is a much more soulful and sorrowful, brilliant but deeply contradictory thinker than we often give him credit for, says James Marcus, as he recommends the best books by – or about – Emerson.
