Robert D. Richardson is the acclaimed author of several biographies, including William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. He has edited anthologies such as Three Centuries of American Poetry and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems, and has taught at Harvard, Yale, the University of Denver, and UNC-Chapel Hill, among many others. He and his wife, Annie Dillard, live in Key West; Cripple Creek, Virginia; and South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
3 Ebooks by Richardson Robert D. Richardson
Richardson Robert D. Richardson: First We Read, Then We Write
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 …
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Richardson Robert D. Richardson: Nearer the Heart’s Desire
Written in Persian in the eleventh century, Omar Khayyam’s quatrains, known as rubai, were written individually for an audience at court, and explored the meanings of life, love, and friendship. They …
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€14.79
Khayyam Omar Khayyam: Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A work of staggering poetic beauty that has inspired the likes of John Ruskin, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Bly, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was written in eleventh-century Persia and was largely unknown …
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