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Writing was the central interest of Emerson's life. While his applying for grants the art are well toned in "The Poet", "The American Scholar", Nature, "Goethe", and "Persian Poetry", less well known will be the many webpages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the very first time, is the Concord Sage's enthusiastic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, concentrated and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at the job today. Emerson advised that "the best way to write is to chuck the body at the draw when your arrows are spent." First We Read, Then We Write contains numerous such surprises - from "every term we speak is million-faced" to "talent by itself cannot make a article writer" - but it is not a mere collection of aphorisms and exhortations. Instead, in Robert Richardson's hands, the biographical and historical framework in which Emerson proved helpful becomes clear. Emerson's advice grew from his personal experience; in nearly every second of his adult life he was either getting ready to write, trying to write, or writing. Richardson shows us an Emerson who's no granite bust, but instead is a fully fleshed, creative person disarmingly happy to confront his own failures. Emerson urges his viewers to try anything - strategies, stunts, makeshifts - speaking not only of the nuts and bolts of writing but also of the grain and sinew of his conviction. Whether a article writer by trade or a amateur, every reader will see something to cherish in this volume. Fearlessly wrestling with "the birthing level of art", Emerson's counsel on being a reader and article writer will be read and reread for a long time to come.
