Nature, Addresses and Lectures (v. 1) (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson) - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674604768 ISBN 13: 9780674604766

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1971

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About this title

From the Author

"Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man - space, the air, the river, and the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, and a picture. But his operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result."

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led 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 gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, "Nature". Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence".

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674604768
• ISBN 13: 9780674604766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 283
• Editor: Spiller Robert E., Ferguson Alfred R.