Overflowing Plenty, of Energy, of Impatient Haste

Emerson's exuberence, according to Richardson, is often expressed in catalogs and lists. 

From the second half of septemeber 1836 to Early March 1837 Emerson was reading, thinking, writing, and talking at white heat.... Emerson was euphoric, full of energy.  His journal is exuberant, brilliant, expansive.... he tossed off lists and catalogs.  They are the inventories of his many worlds.... Image crowds on image in a tumbling heap of inventive abundance.... He loved 'the eight rowed corn, and the twelve-rowed, and the brindled, and the badger corn, and the Canada corn, and the sweet, the white, and the Missouri.".... [mostly] the impulse was a Homeric, a Goethean reaching out to the world...

Emerson write, "Let us paint the agitator, and the man of the old school, and the member of Congress, and the college professor, the formidable editor, the priest, the reformer, the contemplative girl, and the fair aspirant for fashion and opportunity, the woman of the world who has tried and knows."

He was like his admired Carlyle who, Emerson once said, use the language "like a protean engine which cut ,, thrust, saw, rasp, tickle or pulverize as occasion may require."

Emerson's lists are an expression of overflowing plenty, of energy, of impatient haste. "We peddle, we truck, we sail, we row, we ride in cars, we creep in teams, we go in canals, to market, and for the sale of gooes."  (pages 252-253)