
494 Three Roads Back - How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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Bob Emerson's Secret Sympathy
The death of Ellen freed him or gave him the insight to create a whole new way of being as an influential person and thinker. He resigned his ministry over dispute about whether communion should be served he didn't thought this was a false ritual but later came to see that decay was a process of life. The 30 year old Emerson who came ashore back in Boston on October 9 1833 was a different person from the sickly wreck who had boarded the Jasper nine months earlier. When he was a tall man standing six feet in his shoes, he had narrow sloping shoulders and a long neck, and he carried himself directly. His eyes were very blue his hair dark ground. And if you have time
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