Essays: First Series - Softcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 153991173X ISBN 13: 9781539911739

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The present edition is a verbatim reproduction of Emerson's "Essays: First Series", first published in 1841. These 12 essays, along with his "Second Series," represent the core of Emerson's thinking, and the heart of Transcendentalism. Essays included are: "History," "Self-Reliance," "Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," "Love," "Friendship," "Prudence," "Heroism," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "Intellect," and "Art."

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About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), 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 groundbreaking 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: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 153991173X
• ISBN 13: 9781539911739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120