The Portable Emerson

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780698155688

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The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101174005

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The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:819733990

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The Portable Emerson by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,Carl Bode,Malcolm Cowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:416117586

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The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Carl Bode,Malcolm Cowley Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101515594

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Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593512258

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Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism. Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American essays
ISBN : NYPL:33433074816475

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Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047939041

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Society and Solitude and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307419910

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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau 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.” INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781598533934

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language.” 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. For almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Now, a new series, Library of America Paperback Classics, offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of America's authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. Each book features an introductory essay by a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : London G. Routledge 1884.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKJ1Z

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The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0142437689

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The Portable Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400043163

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Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one’s own experience. From the embattled farmers who “fired the shot heard round the world” in the stirring “Concord Hymn,” to the flower in “The Rhodora,” whose existence demonstrates “that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,” Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature. Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson’s poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074812847

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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Chris Highland
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0899976131

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Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Chris Highland Pdf

In this compact book, 60 selections from 30 years of Emersons writings reveal the essence of his spiritual vision. Like his friends John Muir and Henry David Thoreau, Emerson saw images of the divine in the natural world, and rather than seeking to conquer wilderness, sought inspiration from it. Complementing each passage is an inspirational quote from historical and comtemporary luminaries including Margaret Fuller, the Dalai Lama, and Jack Kerouac, and voices from Taoism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism.