Society and Solitude

A discourse by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is one of his last works and contains essays on Society and Solitude, Civilization, Art, Books, Courage, Old Age, etc.

Emerson is one of the most influential thinkers in American history. His Transcendentalism preached a close communion with man and nature and is one of the great life-affirming philosophies of any age. Society and Solitude provides a salient exemplification of Emerson's thought.

As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movem...