God's Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very

by Clark Davis

A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet.

In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his controversial Divinity School address, a twenty-five-year-old tutor and divinity student at Harvard named Jones Very stood before his beginning Greek class and proclaimed himself "the second coming." Over the next twenty months, despite a brief confinement in a mental hospital, he would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226828689
• ISBN13: 9780226828688
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"