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Emerson: Edited by Peter Washington

✍ Scribed by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book ID
110770824
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2012
Tongue
en-US
Weight
466 KB
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307823625
ASIN
B008ED5E1K

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✦ Synopsis

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.
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 β€œfired the shot heard round the world” in the stirring β€œConcord Hymn,” to the flower in β€œThe Rhodora,” whose existence demonstrates β€œthat if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,” Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature.
Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson’s poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.

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