Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title | Ralph Waldo Emerson PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | Bantam Classics |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2006-12-26 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0553903322 |
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.
Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems
Title | Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9780671441487 |
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.
Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title | Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1978 |
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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title | Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1972 |
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Selected essays, lectures, and poems
Title | Selected essays, lectures, and poems PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1970 |
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Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
Title | Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings PDF eBook |
Author | A. S. Byatt |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2005-04-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141958723 |
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.
Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124)
Title | Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124) PDF eBook |
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 2001-04-23 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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A collection of essential writings features Thoreau's poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics; including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil Disobedience," "A Winter Walk," and "Life Without Principle."