The Complete Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Complete Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Special Apple iBook Edition)

Full Color Illustrated Version: All the Essays Speeches and Addresses of Ralph Waldo Emerson including Nature & The American Scholar in One Volume!)

(The Complete Works Collection)

Illustrated in Color with Extensive Critical and Historical Commentary!

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* Over 10 Color And Black And White Illustrations

* Extensive Historical/Biographical Commentary

* Complete Book Length Essay On The Life And Literary Legacy Of Ralph Waldo Emerson


Partial Table Of Contents


Nature

The American Scholar

Divinity College Address

Literary Ethics

The Method Of Nature

Lecture On The Times

The Conservative

Man The Reformer

The Young American

The Transcendentalist

English Traits

Essays

History

Self-Reliance

Compensation

Spiritual Laws

Love

Friendship

Prudence

Heroism

The Over-Soul

Circles

Intellect

Art

The Poet

Experience

Character

Manners

Gifts

Nature

Politics

Nominalist and Realist

New England Reformers

Representative Men

Uses of Great Men

Plato or, The Philosopher

Plato: New Readings

Swedenborg or, The Mystic

Montaigne or, The Skeptic

Shakespeare or, The Poet

Napoleon or, The Man of the World

Goethe or, The Writer

The Conduct of Life

Thoreau

Uncollected Prose

The Lord’s Supper

Essays from “The Dial”

The Editors to the Reader

Thoughts on Modern Literature

Two Years before the Mast.

Social Destiny of Man

Walter Savage Landor

The Senses and the Soul

Transcendentalism

Prayers

Fourierism and the Socialists

Chardon Street and Bible Conventions

Agriculture of Massachusetts

A Letter

The Huguenots in France and America

The Tragic

Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life and Literary Legacy


ABOUT RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American lecturer, philosopher, 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 wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for man to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic; "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul."

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.

In his book The American Religion, Harold Bloom repeatedly refers to Emerson as "The prophet of the American Religion," which in the context of the book refers to indigenously American and gnostic-tinged religions such as Mormonism and Christian Science, which arose largely in Emerson's lifetime. In The Western Canon, Harold Bloom compares Emerson to Michel de Montaigne: "The only equivalent reading experience that I know is to reread endlessly in the notebooks and journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American version of Montaigne."