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.Foreword by Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
EARLY ESSAYS AND LECTURES Pray Without Ceasing (1826) Ethics (1837) The American Scholar (1837) Cherokee Letter (1838) The Divinity School Address (1838)
From ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES (1841) History Self-Reliance The Over-Soul Circles
From ESSAYS, SECOND SERIES (1844) The Poet Experience Politics
From REPRESENTATIVE MEN (1850) Uses of Great Men Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
LATER ESSAYS AND LECTURES Emancipation in the British West Indies (1844) Woman (1855) Thoreau (1862)
POEMS Concord Hymn The Rhodora Each and All Brahma Hamatreya The Snow-storm The Sphinx Ode: Inscribed to W.H. Channing Uriel Threnody Blight Terminus Poet
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