The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Name: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9780679783220

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1983·Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

classics essays

“the most important work done in prose.”
— Matthew Arnold

The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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