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Essays ? First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Classics
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement. Summing up his work, Emerson said that his primary principle was "the infinitude of the private man", and advised to "ma ...Show more
Essays on Fate and Illusions by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Non-Fiction
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Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Nature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson�s writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the ...Show more
Nature Walking by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Thoreau; John C. Elder (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
Nature and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Nature
A collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "Love," and "Art." Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay "Nature" declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality, and laid the groundwork for transcendentalism. H ...Show more
Nature and Selected Essays by EMERSON RALPH WALDO
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for ...Show more
Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Non-Fiction
Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971–2013) was hailed as a major achievement of scholarship and textual editing. Drawing from the ten volumes of theCollected Works, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered some of Emerson's most memorable prose published during his ...Show more
Self-Reliance: The Original 1841 Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Non-Fiction
When Ralph Waldo Emerson published what is probably his most famous essay in 1841, drawing from a lecture he had given a few years earlier, it was in the aftermath of the calamitous financial collapse of 1837. His positive vision for the power of individualism and personal responsibility was issued in a ...Show more
The Best Read Naturalist - Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Michael P. Branch (Editor); Clinton Mohs (Editor)
Category: Nature | Series: Under the Sign of Nature Ser.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. "The Best Read Naturalist" fills this lacuna, placing several of Emerson's lesser-known pieces of nature writing in conversation with his ...Show more
The Illustrated Emerson - Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics (Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation's first recognized public intellectuals, he championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined on everything from the evils of slav ...Show more