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Emerson & Eros.


Emerson & Eros

Len Gougeon

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Written by a former president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Emerson & Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero is the story of the life and the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual growth of American literary icon Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). From Emerson's undergraduate studies at Harvard to his Transcendental philosophy to his later career as a social reformer, Emerson & Eros plumbs the depths far beyond the simple events in Emerson's life. Students and scholar's of Emerson's classic works will find the meticulous me·tic·u·lous  
adj.
1. Extremely careful and precise.

2. Extremely or excessively concerned with details.



[From Latin met
 dissection dissection /dis·sec·tion/ (di-sek´shun)
1. the act of dissecting.

2. a part or whole of an organism prepared by dissecting.
 and reconstruction of Emerson's intellectually formative influences an eye-opening, thoughtful, and compelling assessment. Extensive notes and an index round out this biography especially recommended for college libraries and literary studies shelves.
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