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Essays and poems / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; selected and introduced by Tony Tanner.

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Contributor(s): Tanner, Tony.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Everyman's library.Publisher: London : Dent, 1992Edition: [New ed.].Description: xx,335p ; 20cm + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0460871447 (m); 9780460871440; 0460871862 (v) (cased) :; 9780460871860.Uniform titles: Works. Selections Subject(s): Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Bumppo, Natty (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction | Scouts and scouting -- Fiction | Delaware Indians -- Fiction | Male friendship -- Fiction | Hunters -- Fiction | Philosophy | Literary studies: general | Biography & non-fiction prose | New York (State) -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Fiction | English literature | United StatesDDC classification: 818.3 EME
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 818.3 EME (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 38888000019426
Total holds: 0

Previous ed.: 1906.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • TOC: Essays, First Series: History
  • Self-Reliance
  • Compensation
  • Spiritual Laws
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Prudence
  • Heroism
  • The Over-Soul
  • Circles
  • Intellect
  • Art. Essays, Second Series: The Poet
  • Experience
  • Character
  • Manners
  • Gifts
  • Nature
  • Politics
  • Nominalist and Realist. Poems: Concord Hymn
  • The Problem
  • Uriel
  • Mithridates
  • Hamatreya
  • Earth-Song
  • The Snow-Storm
  • Monadnoc
  • Fable
  • Ode
  • Give All to Love
  • Merlin - 1
  • Merlin - 2
  • Bacchus
  • Xenophanes
  • Brahma
  • Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, 4 July 1857
  • Rubies
  • Days.

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For well over a century, people's lives have been deeply affected by the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the 19th century. He advocated total independence of thought, rejecting conformity for its own sake. For Emerson the individual was key, with each person holding part of an eternal truth which collectively transcended the bounds of mortality. This profoundly optimistic view of humanity is laid out in and underlies his poetry and prose, written in a unique style which is highly readable as well as thought-provoking. Containing many of his most important writings, Essays and Poems is the perfect introduction To The work of this singular American thinker. Excerpted from Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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Known primarily as the leader of the philosophical movement transcendentalism, which stresses the ties of humans to nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist, was born in Boston in 1803. From a long line of religious leaders, Emerson became the minister of the Second Church (Unitarian) in 1829. He left the church in 1832 because of profound differences in interpretation and doubts about church doctrine. He visited England and met with British writers and philosophers. It was during this first excursion abroad that Emerson formulated his ideas for Self-Reliance.

He returned to the United States in 1833 and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. He began lecturing in Boston. His first book, Nature (1836), published anonymously, detailed his belief and has come to be regarded as his most significant original work on the essence of his philosophy of transcendentalism. The first volume of Essays (1841) contained some of Emerson's most popular works, including the renowned Self-Reliance.

Emerson befriended and influenced a number of American authors including Henry David Thoreau. It was Emerson's practice of keeping a journal that inspired Thoreau to do the same and set the stage for Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond. Emerson married twice (his first wife Ellen died in 1831 of tuberculosis) and had four children (two boys and two girls) with his second wife, Lydia. His first born, Waldo, died at age six. Emerson died in Concord on April 27, 1882 at the age of 78 due to pneumonia and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

(Bowker Author Biography)