First We Read, Then We Write - Emerson on the Creative Process

Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in "The Poet," "The American Scholar," Nature, "Goethe," and "Persian Poetry," less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage's energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today.

About the author

Robert D. Richardson is the author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, which won the 2007 Bancroft Prize, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, which won both the Francis Parkman Prize and the Melcher Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, which also won the Melcher Book Award.

Product details

• Authors: Robert D. Richardson, Robert D./ Banville Richardson
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9781609383473
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-347-3
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Muse Books; Muse Books: The Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing; Muse Books; Muse Books: The Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries