Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15)
nature; addresses, and lectures / essays: first and second series / representative men / english traits / the conduct of life
$97.76
- Hardcover
1150 pages
- Release Date
14 November 1983
Summary
Emerson: The Crescive Self - Essays and Lectures
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 D…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940450158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940450151 |
| Series: | Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition |
| Author: | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1150 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 1983 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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“The Emerson who speaks to us through these essays understood America as few have done before or since. By nature a dualistic thinker, he fully realized the polarities of American experience—between action and reflection, self-reliance and community, unity and diversity, idealism and materialism, past and future…. In doing so, he tried to forge a new identity for the new representative American—serene, self-confident, democratic, progressive and pluralistic.” —St. Petersburg Times
About The Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His principal publications include Nature (1836), two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).
Joel Porte (1933-2006), volume editor, won the Bowdoin Prize in 1962 for his essay on Emerson, and was granted the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Emerson Society in 2006. He authored many studies of nineteenth-century and modern literature, including Emerson and Thoreau- Transcendentalists in Conflict, The Romance in America, and Representative Man- Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Time.
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