| An address delivered before the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge. (1838) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson Contributor(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1540369803 ISBN-13: 9781540369802 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.06" H x 6" W x 9" (0.11 lbs) 28 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence". |