The Selected Lectures Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 432 pages
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Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780820334622

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The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871 by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Drawing primarily from previously unpublished manuscripts in the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association Collection in the Houghton Library at Harvard University, recent editions of Emerson's correspondence, journals and notebooks, sermons, and early lectures have provided authoritative texts that inspire readers to consider Emerson's place in American culture afresh. The two-volume Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871, presents the texts of forty-eight complete and unpublished lectures delivered during the crucial middle years of Emerson's career. They offer his thoughts on New England and “Old World” history and culture, poetic theory, education, the history and uses of intellect—as well as his ideas on race relations and women's rights, subjects that sparked many debates. These final volumes contain some of Emerson's most timelessly relevant work and are sure to engage and inform any reader interested in discovering one of our country's greatest intellectuals. The following sections, although appearing only in the volume designated, contain information that pertains to both volumes and are available on the University of Georgia Press website. Volume 1: 1843–1854 contains: Preface Works Frequently Cited Historical and Textual Introduction Volume 2: 1855–1871 contains: Manuscript Sources of Emerson's Later Lectures in the Houghton Library of Harvard University Index to Works by Emerson General Index

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820327336

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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

This is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era’s most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson--the most experienced Emerson editors working today--these twenty-five addresses collectively exemplify the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day. Best known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some 1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most important ideas were worked out in his lectures, they provide the best record we have of his evolving thought--and thus are a key to our understanding of his essays and other printed works. Gathered here are lectures on American culture, literary theory and aesthetics, moral and, as Emerson called it, "intellectual" philosophy, and social and political reform. They are taken from speaking engagements in the United States and the British Isles over the period 1833-1871, during which Emerson often spent four to six months a year on the lecture circuit; lectures from the earliest years of Emerson’s career (1833-1842) have been newly edited for this volume. The volume’s introduction draws on contemporary accounts to describe Emerson’s idiosyncratic but utterly memorable manner of speaking. A headnote provides context to the composition and delivery of each lecture, and footnotes identify Emerson’s allusions to persons, places, occasions, quotations, and books. "By examining his lectures and how they were delivered," say Bosco and Myerson, "we can look into the laboratory of Emerson’s intellectual and compositional process and see his published writings gestating."

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780553903324

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Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

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.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0940450151

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15) by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

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 all 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. The reasons for Emerson’s influence and 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0671478907

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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,Ronald A. Bosco,Joel Myerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820323233

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The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871: 1855-1871 by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Ronald A. Bosco,Joel Myerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books : Washington Square Press, 1965 (1977 printing)
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435005344973

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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A collection of writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including sermons, poems, and journal excerpts, as well as a portion of his contributions to "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," with critical interpretations, and essays that examine the context in which Emerson wrote, and his critical reception.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9355227213

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Essays and Lectures Collection by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A collection of seven most notable works from the father of American transcendentalism, Included in this collection: Nature, Emerson divides nature into four usages-Commodity, Beauty, Language, and Discipline. These distinctions define the ways by which humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another, and their understanding of the world. The American Scholar, is a Speech, it was organized into four sections that detail the current issues with man and lays out the road to becoming an American scholar. Essays: First Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism. Essays: Second Series, is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. Representative Men, is a collection of seven lectures (including on Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. English Traits (including his essays on land, manners, truth, character, art and more of the English nation and its people) The Conduct of Life, is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860. In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer "the question of the times: " "How shall I live?" It is composed of nine essays, each preceded by a poem. These nine essays are largely based on lectures Emerson held throughout the country, including for a young, mercantile audience in the lyceums of the Midwestern boomtowns of the 1850s.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:749442073

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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0671441485

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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A collection of writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including sermons, poems, and journal excerpts, as well as a portion of his contributions to "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," with critical interpretations, and essays that examine the context in which Emerson wrote, and his critical reception.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820326445

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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

This is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era’s most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson--the most experienced Emerson editors working today--these twenty-five addresses collectively exemplify the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day. Best known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some 1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most important ideas were worked out in his lectures, they provide the best record we have of his evolving thought--and thus are a key to our understanding of his essays and other printed works. Gathered here are lectures on American culture, literary theory and aesthetics, moral and, as Emerson called it, "intellectual" philosophy, and social and political reform. They are taken from speaking engagements in the United States and the British Isles over the period 1833-1871, during which Emerson often spent four to six months a year on the lecture circuit; lectures from the earliest years of Emerson’s career (1833-1842) have been newly edited for this volume. The volume’s introduction draws on contemporary accounts to describe Emerson’s idiosyncratic but utterly memorable manner of speaking. A headnote provides context to the composition and delivery of each lecture, and footnotes identify Emerson’s allusions to persons, places, occasions, quotations, and books. "By examining his lectures and how they were delivered," say Bosco and Myerson, "we can look into the laboratory of Emerson’s intellectual and compositional process and see his published writings gestating."

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1325 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0940450151

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Essays & Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555043500

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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858009765326

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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf