The essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of an "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." He forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and defined what it meant to be an American.
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- ISBN: 0679783229 (trade pbk.)
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Physical Description
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xvii, 850 pages ; 21 cm. - Edition 2000 Modern Library pbk. ed.
- Publisher New York : Modern Library, ℗♭2000.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Nature -- The American scholar -- An address -- The transcendentalist -- The Lord's supper -- Essays: First series. History -- Self-reliance -- Compensation -- Spiritual laws -- Love -- Friendship -- Prudence -- Heroism -- The over-soul -- Circles -- Intellect -- Art -- Essays: Second series. The poet -- Experience -- Character -- Manners -- Gifts -- Nature -- Politics -- Nominalist and realist -- New England reformers -- Plato: or, the philosopher -- Napoleon: or, the man of the world -- English traits. First visit to England -- Voyage to England -- Land -- Race -- Ability -- Manners -- Truth -- Character -- Cockayne -- Wealth -- Aristocracy -- Universities -- Religion -- Literature -- The "times" -- Stonehenge -- Personal -- Result -- Speech at Manchester -- Conduct of life. Wealth -- Culture -- Society and solitude -- Farming -- Poems. Good-bye -- The problem -- Uriel -- The rhodora -- The humble-bee -- The snow-storm -- Ode -- Forbearance -- Forerunners -- Give all to love -- Threnody -- Concord hymn -- May-Day -- The Adirondacs -- Brahma -- Merlin's song -- Hymn -- Days -- Character -- Walden -- Lines to Ellen -- Self-reliance -- Webster -- Ezra Ripley, D.D. -- Emancipation in the British West Indies -- The Fugitive Slave Law -- John Brown -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Thoreau -- Abraham Lincoln -- Carlyle -- Commentary. |