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Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
[Paperback - 2007]
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Collections
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Bantam Classics | ISBN: 9780553213881 | Pages: 416
Shipping Weight: .193 | Dimensions: 4.17 x .89 x 6.86 inches

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets. The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity. As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature. “I become a transparent eyeball,” Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Written over a century ago, this passage is a striking example of the passion and originality of Emerson’s ideas, which continue to serve as a spiritual center and an ideological base for modern thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His principal publications include Nature (1836), two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).

Harold Bloom and Paul Kane, volume editors, are, respectively, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Yale University, and assistant professor of English at Vassar College.

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