Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes Books
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes Books
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Oliver Wendell Holmes Books Reviews
Oliver Wendell Holmes describes Emerson as an intellectual mystic, as opposed to an emotional one. This probably places Emerson very much in line with Holmes' own temperament -- this Holmes is the father of the famous and intellectually accomplished Supreme Court justice; Holmes, Sr. was himself a medical doctor and man of letters in New England. What Holmes describes as intellectual mysticism as opposed to emotional mysticism shows that Emerson never lost a realistic grounding of his beliefs, and always kept a firm grasp on things such as common sense and self reliance.
Joel Porte introduces the text, written in 1885, talking about the odd choice the rationalist Holmes must have seemed to the Transcendentalist canonisers who would have wanted a more sympathetic character. However, Holmes' overall personality made him an ideal biographer, with much more credibility in the end than a true-believing disciple of Emerson would have had in a similar biographical effort. Both Holmes and Emerson were seekers after truth, and in such had a similar spirit; both also had a good sense for the ridiculous, and managed to remain level-headed among otherwise unstable environments.
Holmes identifies Emerson as belonging to the New England 'Academic' race -- Emerson is a name that is common among academics and ministers generation after generation. This kind of inheritance is more than just cultural in Emerson's view, and in Holmes' view, who before addressing his subject, looks at the several generations back of Emerson's forebears.
Emerson finds inspiration in the things about him -- in nature, in society, and in himself. Emerson has a deep and abiding concern for the transcendent unity of all things, and that there is a spirit in the world that keeps the world together. Emerson was born into a society at a unique period, a coalescing of the first truly American generation of thinkers. While Emerson was not a particularly outstanding student in college, he nonetheless developed ways of writing, thinking and speaking that made him a prominent intellectual figure in his own time, and a mystical/religious figure as well.
Holmes had the advantage of having known Emerson enough to be able to render some personal and candid observations. After giving a general historical narrative of his life, complete with extracts from writings and correpondence, Holmes reflects on various aspects of Emerson's life, including his general personality and habits. Emerson's voice had charm both in personal conversation as well as in lecture and pulpit settings. Emerson often spoke with hesitation, according to Holmes, prefering the momentary silence to find the right word over using the wrong or less-appropriate word. These kinds of observations make Holmes' volume one of real value.
In discussing Emerson's mystical side, Holmes rarely has sympathy, but does not denigrate Emerson's own belief system. 'The knowledge, if knowledge it be, of the mystic is not transmissible,' Holmes states. It cannot be compiled and built upon by others, but is created anew in each seeker. Emerson's view of science is probably similar to Holmes' view of mysticism.
Overall, this is an excellent biography of Emerson, great at giving insight into the author, Holmes, as well.
I am grateful to be able to read it.
well written
An analysis of one genius by another. Modern scholarship has its place but cannot replace the observations of an old friend.
I am finding Firkins' 1915 biography of Emerson a delight to read. However, I must offer a warning that his antique prose style will not be to all tastes. In this age that appreciates simplicity of telling, Firkins will seem obtuse and extremely difficult to understand by many readers. For instance Here is a crabbed sentence from page 22 that I had to read several times. "It must be clearly realized that in questions of machinery, of the modus operandi of society and civilization, Emerson's temper was essentially conservative; his instinct was to grasp the approved tool, the existent mechanism in a universe in which all forms were reduced to a virtual equality through previous reduction to virtual nullity before the face of an omnipotent spirit, it seemed finical to be nice in the comparison of ineffectualities." So if you are looking for the bare bones of Emerson, try elsewhere.
The second half of the Firkins is given over to a valuable review of Emerson's works. It may be well worth your price of admission to have these insightful commentaries on each of the essays. For example "Self-Reliance" is the most spinous and bristling of the essays of Emerson, as it is unquestionable one of the greatest. With the exception of two or three sentences in "Spiritual Laws," it is almost the only essay in which our own tolerant generation perceives that "nipping and eager air" which bit so shrewdly into the more sensitive cuticle of his contemporaries."
Guys, come on. Do your research! It was Oliver Wendell Holmes SENIOR who was friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and who wrote this book in his later years. Check out a bibliography, why don't you! Look to see what years Emerson lived and Holmes lived; they were the same age! I am so frustrated that you've gotten this completely and totally wrong after I bought the book!
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