Essays: Authoritative, complete edition

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Overview

Inspiring essays from America's most famous poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This edition is one of the most complete, affordable editions of Emerson's essays available. Reprinted here is the full content of all twelve "First Series" essays and all eight "Second Series" essays. Emerson provides insightful commentary on Love, Friendship, History, Nature, and Politics. Bonus feature: Emerson's "New England Reformers" lecture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983170815
Publisher:	Regatta Press Ltd.
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American lecturer, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Emerson's work not only influenced his contemporaries, such as Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, but would continue to influence thinkers and writers in the United States and around the world down to the present. Notable thinkers who recognize Emerson's influence include Nietzsche and William James, Emerson's godson.