Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic Contributor(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author), Crase, Douglas (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1598530844 ISBN-13: 9781598530841 Publisher: Library of America OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - General |
Dewey: 814.3 |
Series: Library of America |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.56" W x 7.96" (0.87 lbs) 416 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language. -Harold Bloom Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essays, including the exhortation to Self-Reliance, the embattled realizations of Circles and Experience, and the groundbreaking achievement of Nature. 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 calls the great and crescive self, he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Also gathered here are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, friendship, love, and much more. |