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| Original Title: | Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures / Essays: First and Second |
| Series: | / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life |
| ISBN: | 0940450151 (ISBN13: 9780940450158) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.loa.org/books/40-essays-lectures |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hardcover | Pages: 1348 pages Rating: 4.31 | 2804 Users | 47 Reviews
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| Title | : | Essays and Lectures |
| Author | : | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1348 pages |
| Published | : | November 15th 1983 by Library of America |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Classics. Literature |
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This first Library of America volume of Emerson’s writing covers the most productive period of his life, 1832–1860. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive self,” he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes.Here are the indispensable and most renowned works, including “The American Scholar” (“our intellectual Declaration of Independence,” as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), “The Divinity School Address,” considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to “Self-Reliance,” along with the more embattled realizations of “Circles” and, especially, “Experience.” Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other “representative men,” and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people.
This volume includes Emerson’s well-known Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849), his Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), plus Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and his later book of essays, The Conduct of Life (1860). These are the works that established Emerson’s colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust.
Emerson’s enduring power is apparent everywhere in American literature: in those, like Whitman and some of the major twentieth-century poets, who seek to corroborate his vision, and among those, like Hawthorne and Melville, who questioned, qualified, and struggled with it. Emerson’s vision reverberates also in the tradition of American philosophy, notably in the writings of William James and John Dewey, in the works of his European admirers, such as Nietzsche, and in the avant-garde theorists of our own day who write on the nature and function of language. The reasons for Emerson’s durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work.
Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America’s greatest writer.
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I try not to make a habit of rating things before reading their entirity, but some authors have such a total disregard for logic and truth in general that you can't finish their essays. He's the kind of guy who says that Jesus and Socrates and Zoroaster were divine, and that Shakespeare and I both have Shakespeare's wit because we're part of the same world soul. You know who disagrees about the first? Jesus and Socrates and Zoroaster. You know who disagrees about the second? Absolutely everyoneA wealth of information. I feel my relative had incredible spiritual teachings that the world didn't accept until this age. It proves to me that although his thoughts weren't as acceptable then, they give us great awareness of the spirituality of life and the struggles of the human, while living on earth. He is very deep and each time I read this book, I learn more. Again this is proof as to how we learn as humans. We each have the understanding according to our level of consciousness and so
Emerson rings true for all ages!
Am I putting this up here just to make myself look smart? Ummm...let's skip that one, and just say that I'd never read him before, might have missed him if it hadn't been assigned for class and I really loved this book. Scary how perfectly someone could nail the America of today when writing over a hundred years ago. Also gotta love someone who tells students at the Harvard Divinity school that it's okay not to get into Jesus if you're not feeling him (not an exact quote). John Lennon would
I'm adding this on 12-17-09:I have been checking this in and out of the library since August, I think will just post as I go. It is just too dense to somehow, summarize with a simple Thumbs up! More recently I have been focusing on how Emerson represented and interpreted a certain climate that existed in New England during this time. Mormonism developed in the same climate and this is of interest to me. There are some important parallels in how Emerson views man and the doctrine of the Mormon
Holy mother, I finally finished this tome of beauty. I read it in small increments, with other books in between, throughout the past 16 months and it was always a treat. Emerson is a wonder.
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