The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV, 1860-1866

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edited by Linda Allardt

Edited by David W. Hill

Edited by Ruth H. Bennett

    No American mind stands more influentially for creativity than Emerson's. And these lifelong records, his journals particularly, provide unique glimpses into his growth...His journalizing was literary practice, but above all, it was a heritage from the unsparing Puritan self-examination of the spirit.
       --Chicago Tribune

    [Emerson's journals] make the fullness of his humanity and his understanding of the country he was living in unmistakable. By contrast the published works proclaim the various stances he was driven to assume...In the journals he is both more hard-headed and more warm-hearted.
       --New York Times Book Review

    What appeals in this volume is the freshness and nearness of Emerson the person. A man so reserved and scrupulous is only to be known in his private journals. That his earlier editors Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes made him less of a person is well known. This latest volume furthers the restoration of his wildness, his uncertainties, and his originality.
       --American Historical Review

    That the editors have been able to order this fascinating chaos is a tribute to their patience, intelligence, and skill. There will never have to be another edition.
       --New York Times Rook Review

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Linda Allardt is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

David W. Hill is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Oswego.

Ruth H. Bennett has been Research Associate for this edition for seventeen years.