1858-1863. ÆT. 55-60.
Essay on Persian Poetry. -- Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival. -- Letter from Emerson to a Lady. -- Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau. -- Address on the Emancipation Proclamation. -- Publication of "The Conduct of Life." Contents: Fate; Power; Wealth; Culture; Behavior; Considerations by the Way; Beauty; Illusions.
THE Essay on Persian Poetry, published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1858, should be studied by all readers who are curious in tracing the influence of Oriental poetry on Emerson's verse. In many of the shorter poems and fragments published since "May-Day," as well as in the "Quatrains" and others of the later poems in that volume, it is sometimes hard to tell what is from the Persian from what is original.
On the 25th of January, 1859, Emerson attended the Burns Festival, held at the Parker House in Boston, on the Centennial Anniversary of the poet's birth. He spoke after the dinner to the great audience with such beauty and eloquence that all who listened to him have remembered it as one of the most delightful addresses they ever heard. Among his hearers was
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Publication information:
Book title: Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Contributors: Oliver Wendell Holmes - Author.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.
Place of publication: Boston.
Publication year: 1885.
Page number: 224.
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