The essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

✍ Scribed by Atkinson, Brooks (edited); Oliver, Mary (introduction)

• Book ID: 106894735
• Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2000.
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 640 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679783220

✦ Synopsis

Review

"I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil."
--Walt Whitman -- Review

Product Description

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."