English Traits (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Overview

This collection of essays, published in 1856, grew out of Emerson's travels in England, undertaken shortly after he resigned his ministry following a loss of faith.  An insightful survey of English history and manners, English Traits also features accounts of Emerson's meetings with such luminaries as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411435780
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	02/15/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	346 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet.  Along with such figures as Henry Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, he was an originator and, through the magazine The Dial, popularizer of the Transcendentalist movement.  In essays like "Self-Reliance," he championed a distinctly American brand of individualism. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet.  Along with such figures as Henry Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, he was an originator and, through the magazine The Dial, popularizer of the Transcendentalist movement.  In essays like "Self-Reliance," he championed a distinctly American brand of individualism.