Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Name: Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
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ISBN: 9780553213881

ISBN-10: 0553213881

ISBN-13: 9780553213881

Edition: 1990

Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert D. Richardson

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A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets. The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity. As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature. “I become a transparent eyeball,” Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am…

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List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.73" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction I.----


Commodity


Beauty


Language


Discipline


Idealism


Spirit


Prospects Early Essays and Lectures Pray Without Ceasing (1826)


Ethics (1837)


The American Scholar (1837)


Cherokee Letter (1838)


The Divinity School Address (1838)


From ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES (1841)


History Self-Reliance The Over-Soul Circles From Essays, Second Series (1844)


The Poet Experience Politics From Representative Men (1850)


Uses of Great Men Montaigne; or, the Skeptic Later Essays and Lectures Emancipationin the British West Indies (1844)


Woman (1855)


Thoreau (1862)


POEMS Concord Hymn The Rhodora Each and All Brahma Hamatreya The Snow-storm The Sphinx Ode: Inscribed to W.H. Channing Uriel Threnody Blight Terminus Poet Additional Reading