Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460406168
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Essayist, lecturer, poet, and America’s first “public intellectual,” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) is the central figure in nineteenth-century American letters and the leader (albeit reluctantly) of the Transcendental group. A literary mover and shaker, Emerson directed his unpopular early radicalism toward social institutions (the Church, education, literary conventions); by his death in 1882, however, his reputation was already solidifying as a national icon. Somewhere between the iconic sage and the speculative idealist lies an Emerson that students don’t often encounter, a flesh-and-blood figure whose writings testify to his continuing exploration of the individual’s place in an increasingly conformist and crowded world. In its selections and its apparatus, this Broadview edition bridges the gap between Emerson and students by stressing his real-world engagements. The collection contains a range of prose and poetry addressing some of Emerson’s major concerns—nature and the self, imagination and the poet, religion and social reform—as he explores the enduring question “How shall I live?” Historical appendices include primary materials on Transcendentalism; the contemporary debate about the nature of biblical miracles; other authors’ responses to Emerson as a writer and thinker; and the development of his complex reputation as a representative American. Copy-texts in this edition are the first published versions of each text, restored here as Emerson’s initial audience would have read them.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Library of America Ralph Waldo
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Contains Emerson's published poetry, plus selections of his unpublished poetry from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's La vita nuova.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: FV Éditions
ISBN: 2366688199
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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"Every great man is a unique". R.W Emerson told us that Self-confidence is always about independence : "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books : Washington Square Press, 1965 (1977 printing)
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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A collection of writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including sermons, poems, and journal excerpts, as well as a portion of his contributions to "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," with critical interpretations, and essays that examine the context in which Emerson wrote, and his critical reception.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835605939
Category : Quotations, American.
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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Selected excerpts from the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Author: Joel Myerson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231500326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public. Through these letters readers gained a new insight into the mind of this seminal figure in American literary and intellectual history. Now, for the first time, readers can find Emerson's best letters distilled in one volume. Distinguished Emerson scholar Joel Myerson has selected 350 letters written between 1813 and 1880 that best represents the scope of Emerson's correspondence.
