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Richardson, Robert Dale was born on June 14, 1934 in Milwaukee. Son of Robert Dale and Lucy Baldwin (Marsh) Richardson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age. Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator. The Emerson of this book not only influenced Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost, he also inspired Nietzsche, William James, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges. Emerson's timeliness is persistent and striking: his insistence that literature and science are not separate cultures, his emphasis on the worth of every individual, his respect for nature. Richardson gives careful attention to the enormous range of Emerson's readings—from Persian poets to George Sand—and to his many friendships and personal encounters—from Mary Moody Emerson to the Cherokee chiefs in Boston—evoking both the man and the times in which he lived. Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.
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The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape. In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.
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(The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night ...)
The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape. In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.
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Richardson, Robert Dale was born on June 14, 1934 in Milwaukee. Son of Robert Dale and Lucy Baldwin (Marsh) Richardson.
AB magna cum laude in English, Harvard University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature, Harvard University, 1961.
Richardson was brought up in Medford, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts. He taught at the University of Denver, Harvard University, Yale University, The University of Colorado, Queens College, City University of New York, Sichuan University, Wesleyan University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the James book he even pauses, endearingly, at a tricky philosophical intersection, and allows, “This is not easy stuff.” These are intellectual biographies, which means that Richardson attempted to read everything his subjects read—which also means that he works just as hard as these death-haunted, pressed-for-time 19th-century giants who fascinate him.
lieutenant"s a formidable combination.
He"s a writer who rewards your trust, for the same reasons we learned to trust him on those sailboats far from shore—he knows what he"s doing, and because he"s restless, curious and fearless, he can take you where you might never travel on your own. To trace the subtle reciprocities between philosophizing and living is the ambitious task that Richardson sets himself in his absorbing, if also frustrating, biography.
(The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night ...)
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Trustee Meadville-Lombard Theological School, 1981-1987. Member Society American History, Society Eighteenth Century Studies, Melville Society, Author's Guild, Thoreau Society, Emerson Society, Association Literature Scholars and Critics.
Married Elizabeth Hall, November 7, 1959 (divorced 1987). Married Annie Dillard, December 10, 1988. Children: Elisabeth, Anne, Rosy.