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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process, Richardson, Rober
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1587297930
ISBN-13
9781587297939
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71154145
Product Key Features
Book Title
First We Read, Then We Write : Emerson on the Creative Process
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Creative Ability, American / General, Literary, Composition & Creative Writing, Books & Reading
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-040554
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Robert Richardson's extraordinary knowledge of Emerson's life and work allows him to stroll back through the marginal notes to Emerson's complete oeuvre and distill for us the choicest liquor. Most remarkable is the volume's organization. Such a compilation and meditation becomes virtually a new interpretive essay about Emerson as reader and writer. Richardson's pithy prose is as engaging as the master's. We have here something that, from its first page, will instantly delight and instruct both readers and writers. This should be a favorite among all sorts of readers: creative writers who will turn to it to see what a master thought about language and its manifold uses; prose writers who will see in Emerson's essays timeless models for their own work; poets who will learn much about words and their fitness for the various works to which we seek to put them."-Philip F. Gura, author,American Transcendentalism: A History, "Robert Richardson has done exquisite service both to Emerson and to the many readers this book will surely attract and leave with a deeper understanding of Emerson the writer. How many of us have read through all the journals to gather his thoughts, often private, uncontained in the essays, about the actual work of turning language into the fertile body of expressed thought? As in his biography of Emerson, The Mind on Fire , we are recipients again of Richardson's scholarship, his unflagging, inquisitive, humanist unveiling of the great Emerson's thoughts."--Mary Oliver, "Robert Richardson has done exquisite service both to Emerson and to the many readers this book will surely attract and leave with a deeper understanding of Emerson the writer. How many of us have read through all the journals to gather his thoughts, often private, uncontained in the essays, about the actual work of turning language into the fertile body of expressed thought? As in his biography of Emerson,The Mind on Fire, we are recipients again of Richardson's scholarship, his unflagging, inquisitive, humanist unveiling of the great Emerson's thoughts."-Mary Oliver, "Robert Richardson has done exquisite service both to Emerson and to the many readers this book will surely attract and leave with a deeper understanding of Emerson the writer. How many of us have read through all the journals to gather his thoughts, often private, uncontained in the essays, about the actual work of turning language into the fertile body of expressed thought? As in his biography of Emerson, The Mind on Fire , we are recipients again of Richardson's scholarship, his unflagging, inquisitive, humanist unveiling of the great Emerson's thoughts."-Mary Oliver, "Richardson is Emerson's foremost biographer, and he has culled the great man's work for the kind of specific, timeless instruction that makes the difference between good writing and great writing. This is the book on writing that Emerson would have used to teach his lucky students. The chapter on sentences sparkles, and it alone is worth the purchase. Everyone who wants to learn about writing should read this book."--Susan Cheever, author, American Bloomsbury and Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, "Richardson is Emerson's foremost biographer, and he has culled the great man's work for the kind of specific, timeless instruction that makes the difference between good writing and great writing. This is the book on writing that Emerson would have used to teach his lucky students. The chapter on sentences sparkles, and it alone is worth the purchase. Everyone who wants to learn about writing should read this book."-Susan Cheever, author, American Bloomsbury and Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, "In this brief, elegant, and quietly passionate volume Robert Richardson has produced an invaluable handbook for the writer and aspirant writer, a copy of which should be presented to every student in every writing class around the world, for it is a serious course he is embarked on, in which he must learn to write not in the hope of expressing his puny self but to be, among other things, a guardian of language."-John Banville,The New York Review of Books, "In this brief, elegant, and quietly passionate volume Robert Richardson has produced an invaluable handbook for the writer and aspirant writer, a copy of which should be presented to every student in every writing class around the world, for it is a serious course he is embarked on, in which he must learn to write not in the hope of expressing his puny self but to be, among other things, a guardian of language."-John Banville, The New York Review of Books, "Richardson is Emerson's foremost biographer, and he has culled the great man's work for the kind of specific, timeless instruction that makes the difference between good writing and great writing. This is the book on writing that Emerson would have used to teach his lucky students. The chapter on sentences sparkles, and it alone is worth the purchase. Everyone who wants to learn about writing should read this book."-Susan Cheever, author,American BloomsburyandDesire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
Dewey Decimal
814/.3
Table Of Content
Content Introduction 1 Reading 7 Keeping a Journal 19 Practical Hints 23 Nature 27 More Practical Hints 33 The Language of the Street 45 Words 49 Sentences 53 Emblem, Symbol, Metaphor 59 Audience 65 Art Is the Path 71 The Writer 77 Epilogue 83 Acknowledgments 87 Notes 89 Index 99
Synopsis
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., 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. Emerson advised that "the way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent." First We Read, Then We Write contains numerous such surprises--from "every word we speak is million-faced" to "talent alone cannot make a writer"--but it is no mere collection of aphorisms and exhortations. Instead, in Robert Richardson's hands, the biographical and historical context in which Emerson worked becomes clear. Emerson's advice grew from his personal experience; in practically every moment of his adult life he was either preparing to write, trying to write, or writing. Richardson shows us an Emerson who is no granite bust but instead is a fully fleshed, creative person disarmingly willing to confront his own failures. Emerson urges his readers to try anything--strategies, tricks, makeshifts--speaking not only of the nuts and bolts of writing but also of the grain and sinew of his determination. Whether a writer by trade or a novice, every reader will find something to treasure in this volume. Fearlessly wrestling with "the birthing stage of art," Emerson's counsel on being a reader and writer will be read and reread for years to come., 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. Emerson advised that the way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent. "First We Read, Then We Write" contains numerous such surprises from every word we speak is million-faced to talent alone cannot make a writer but it is no mere collection of aphorisms and exhortations. Instead, in Robert Richardson s hands, the biographical and historical context in which Emerson worked becomes clear. Emerson s advice grew from his personal experience; in practically every moment of his adult life he was either preparing to write, trying to write, or writing. Richardson shows us an Emerson who is no granite bust but instead is a fully fleshed, creative person disarmingly willing to confront his own failures. Emerson urges his readers to try anything strategies, tricks, makeshifts speaking not only of the nuts and bolts of writing but also of the grain and sinew of his determination. Whether a writer by trade or a novice, every reader will find something to treasure in this volume. Fearlessly wrestling with the birthing stage of art, Emerson s counsel on being a reader and writer will be read and reread for years to come."
LC Classification Number
PS1631.R54 2009
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