The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published on 30. September 2009
880 pages
978-0-307-41991-0 (ISBN)
Description
Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
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. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose."
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
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. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose."
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE
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Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Mary Oliver is the author of The Leaf and the Cloud, West Wind, and A Poetry Handbook, among others. Over the past two decades she has taught at various colleges and universities-Case Western Reserve, Bucknell, Sweet Briar College, the University of Cincinnati, and Bennington College in Vermont. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Hobe Sound, Florida.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction by Mary Oliver
- Nature
- The American Scholar
- An Address
- The Transcendentalist
- The Lord's Supper
- Essays: First Series
- History
- Self-Reliance
- Compensation
- Spiritual Laws
- Love
- Friendship
- Prudence
- Heroism
- The Over-Soul
- Circles
- Intellect
- Art
- Essays: Second Series
- The Poet
- Experience
- Character
- Manners
- Gifts
- Nature
- Politics
- Nominalist and Realist
- New England Reformers
- Plato
- or, The Philosopher
- Napoleon
- or, The Man of the World
- English Traits
- I. First Visit to England
- II. Voyage to England
- III. Land
- IV. Race
- V. Ability
- VI. Manners
- VII. Truth
- VIII. Character
- IX. Cockayne
- X. Wealth
- XI. Aristocracy
- XII. Universities
- XIII. Religion
- XIV. Literature
- XV. The "Times"
- XVI. Stonehenge
- XVII. Personal
- XVIII. Result
- XIX. Speech at Manchester
- Conduct of Life
- Wealth
- Culture
- Society and Solitude
- Farming
- Poems
- Good-Bye
- The Problem
- Uriel
- The Rhodora
- The Humble-Bee
- The Snow-storm
- Ode
- Forbearance
- Forerunners
- Give All to Love
- Threnody
- Concord Hymn
- May-Day
- The Adirondacs
- Brahma
- Merlin's Song
- Hymn
- Days
- Character
- Walden
- Lines to Ellen
- Self-Reliance
- Webster
- Ezra Ripley, D.D.
- Emancipation in the British West Indies
- The Fugitive Slave Law
- John Brown
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Thoreau
- Abraham Lincoln
- Carlyle
- Commentary
- Reading Group Guide
- About the Author
