In his biography of Emerson, Robert Richardson notes that the first couple years after graduation, as Emerson "dreamed of being a poet, an orator, a minister" he was always dissatisfied.
Except for the presence of his brothers and his correspondence with Aunt Mary, Emerson was intellectually isolated during these early years out of college, living -- in a phrase he got from Charles Lamb -- in a "solitude of unshared energies."
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