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Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hardcover. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Editor(s): Washington, Peter. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 116 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled farmers who fired the shot heard round the world in the stirring Concord Hymn, to the flower in The Rhodora, whose existence demonstrates that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being, Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in ... Read more
Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled farmers who fired the shot heard round the world in the stirring Concord Hymn, to the flower in The Rhodora, whose existence demonstrates that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being, Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841597621
SKU
V9781841597621
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About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became ... Read more
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