TY - BOOK AU - Gregg,Edith W. TI - One First Love: The Letters of Ellen Louisa Tucker to Ralph Waldo Emerson SN - 9780674434097 AV - PS92 U1 - 810.9 PY - 2013///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - American literature KW - Civilization KW - Englische Literatur Amerikas KW - Literatur KW - Zeittafel KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women KW - Emerson, Ellen Tucker -- Correspondence KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Correspondence KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I. DECEMBER 1828 - SEPTEMBER 1829 --; PART II. DECEMBER 1829 - FEBRUARY 1831 --; PART III. POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS --; NOTES. NOTES ON THE TEXT. INDEX --; Notes --; Notes on the Text --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 Emerson's letters to Ellen Tucker have been destroyed, but several of his poems to her--two of them hitherto unpublished--are included with her letters in this volume.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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674434103 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674434103 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674434103.jpg ER -