Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner life and emphasizing individual freedom and self-reliance.
This collection contains eleven of his most celebrated and memorable essays from this period: “Self-Reliance,” “Nature,” “Circles,” “Friendship,” “Heroism,” “Prudence,” “Compensation,” “Gifts,” “Manners,” “Shakespeare; Or, the Poet,” and “The American Scholar.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading proponent of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister at Harvard Divinity School but served for only three years before developing his own spiritual philosophy based on individualism and intuition. His essay Nature is arguably his best-known work and was both groundbreaking and highly controversial when it was first published. Emerson also wrote poetry and lectured widely across the US.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Emerson is at once high-minded, and level-headed. (Paraphrase:) “I went to the Vatican Museum, and in the poets and saints in paintings there I saw long-lost friends.” “I went to Rome to see art, although of course if I had wanted to see what people look like, I might have just stayed in Boston.”.........................I also think that the question of language, (I read each section twice), is more a matter of large ideas than funny dialect; it does have substance to it. And it’s nice to know that I’m not the first one to wonder if what we learn is of any use— a question that once vexed me sorely.
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