Emerson's Essays - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143850912X ISBN 13: 9781438509129

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2009

Synopsis

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th century American essayist, poet and leader in the transcendentalist movement. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Some of his more well-known essays include Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, The Poet, Experience, and The American Scholar.

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About the Author:

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a tireless and diligent public intellectual who would give over 1500 lectures over the course of his career, educating thousands of people within academia and wider society about his beliefs, principles and personal philosophy. The son of a Bostonian minister, Emerson was giving good schooling, and was influenced by his father's professional capacity for speech. Upon establishing a school in Massachusetts, Emerson's thoughts on freedom and the place of the individual were to evolve. Over the course of his life Emerson's outlook on personal freedoms and independence would be massively influential on the young United States, immeasurably shaping the nation's development and outlook. Adventurous even in old age, Emerson would in 1871 take a trip on the barely-completed Transcontinental Railroad, touring California and meeting many dignataries during his trip. His final writings were the poetic anthology Parnassus. After years of failing memory Emerson perished from pneumonia in 1882.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 143850912X
• ISBN 13: 9781438509129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256