A Year with Emerson

This volume is the second in a new daily-reading series featuring nineteenth century American Transcendentalist writers and their earlier influences. A Year with Emerson contains 365 passages, one for each day of the year, selected from Ralph Waldo Emerson's lectures and essays. Excerpts are brief, but meaningful. More than just a collection of random quotes, each page includes broad context.

Emerson lived according to principles he laid out by listening to his conscience. He believed that i...