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Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Ser.: Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures (LOA #15) by Ralph Waldo. Emerson (1983, Hardcover)
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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 Divinity School Address," considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to "Self-Reliance," along with the more embattled realizations of "Circles" and, especially, "Experience." Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other "representative men," and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people. This volume includes Emerson's well-known Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849), his Essays- First Series (1841) and Essays- Second Series (1844), plus Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and his later book of essays, The Conduct of Life (1860). These are the works that established Emerson's colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust.The reasons for Emerson's influence and durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work. Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America's greatest writer. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-100940450151
ISBN-139780940450158
eBay Product ID (ePID)894974
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicMovements / Transcendentalism, American / General, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Philosophy
AuthorRalph Waldo. Emerson
Dimensions
Item Length8.2in
Item Height1.4in
Item Weight25.8 Oz
Item Width5.2in
Additional Product Features
Book TitleRalph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures (Loa #15)
Lccn83-005447
Series Volume Number1
Intended AudienceTrade
Lc Classification NumberPs3048
SeriesLibrary of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Ser.
Publication Year1983
FormatHardcover
Reviews"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
Grade fromTwelfth Grade
Number of Pages1150 Pages
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