One First Love

Edith W. Gregg

ISBN 10: 0674434099 / ISBN 13: 9780674434097

Published by Harvard University Press Apr 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Letters, poems, and fragments of a journal are the only first-hand reflection we have of a personality of major importance in the life of Emerson, that of the beautiful and gifted Ellen Louisa Tucker, whom he married in 1829. The depth and transforming effect on him of their happy love is a universally acknowledged biographical fact, as is the tragic, shattering effect of her early death in 1831. 228 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One First Love
• Publisher: Harvard University Press Apr 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674434099
• ISBN 13: 9780674434097
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 196W x 125H x 17D millimeters 196 millimeters width by 125 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 304 grams

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Synopsis

Letters, poems, and fragments of a journal are the only first-hand reflection we have of a personality of major importance in the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that of the beautiful and gifted Ellen Louisa Tucker, whom he married in 1829. Blithe, humorous, full of charm and candor, the engaging seventeen-year-old had captured wholly the heart of the serious young minister. The depth and transforming effect on him of their happy love is a universally acknowledged biographical fact, as is the tragic, shattering effect of her early death in 1831. Emerson's letters to Ellen Tucker have been destroyed, but several of his poems to her--two of them hitherto unpublished--are included with her letters in this volume. This romantic chronicle of two intelligent, active young people takes on a poignant significance as a monument to a love that affected Emerson profoundly during the years of his most critical personal decisions. The letters are owned by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. They are edited and presented here by Emerson's great-granddaughter, a trustee of the Association, as the most direct commemoration possible of a vital experience, intimate and central to the Emerson story.