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Essays and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hardcover | Pages: 1348 pages

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Original Title:	Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures / Essays: First and Second
Series:	/ Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life
ISBN:	0940450151 (ISBN13: 9780940450158)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.loa.org/books/40-essays-lectures

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This first Library of America volume of Emerson’s writing covers the most productive period of his life, 1832–1860. 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 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.

Emerson’s enduring power is apparent everywhere in American literature: in those, like Whitman and some of the major twentieth-century poets, who seek to corroborate his vision, and among those, like Hawthorne and Melville, who questioned, qualified, and struggled with it. Emerson’s vision reverberates also in the tradition of American philosophy, notably in the writings of William James and John Dewey, in the works of his European admirers, such as Nietzsche, and in the avant-garde theorists of our own day who write on the nature and function of language. The reasons for Emerson’s 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.

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Title	:	Essays and Lectures
Author	:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1348 pages
Published	:	November 15th 1983 by Library of America
Categories	:	Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Classics. Literature

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A wealth of information. I feel my relative had incredible spiritual teachings that the world didn't accept until this age. It proves to me that although his thoughts weren't as acceptable then, they give us great awareness of the spirituality of life and the struggles of the human, while living on earth. He is very deep and each time I read this book, I learn more. Again this is proof as to how we learn as humans. We each have the understanding according to our level of consciousness and so

Our age is retrospective, wrote Emerson. Emerson fought for individuals to trust the divine within and stop relying on past individuals to tell us what to do. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. Fascinating read. I think Im a Transcendentalist.

Wonderful! Inspirational! A classic! Rereading some favorite passages of my much loved worn out copy on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Birthday!! "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm!!" "A friend is one before whom I can think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm adding this on 12-17-09:I have been checking this in and out of the library since August, I think will just post as I go. It is just too dense to somehow, summarize with a simple Thumbs up! More recently I have been focusing on how Emerson represented and interpreted a certain climate that existed in New England during this time. Mormonism developed in the same climate and this is of interest to me. There are some important parallels in how Emerson views man and the doctrine of the Mormon

Emerson is Americas great Transcendental philosopher of nature. Im not a nature lover, however. I dont think more truths are to be had walking through a forest than walking down a city street. I dont think nature is an unambiguous good, extolling lessons of virtue and justice. Nature, to me, is more equivocal, more problematic. Lets be perfectly clear: Its trying to kill you. All the time. Everywhere. It is a remorseless battleground for survival. Its through these jaded eyes Im reviewing the

Wonderful! Inspirational! A classic! Rereading some favorite passages of my much loved worn out copy on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Birthday!! "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm!!" "A friend is one before whom I can think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson

If modern America claims to admire Emerson, then it really does not understand Emerson. This is deeply spiritual stuff, and deeply critical of materialism and consumerism. The essay "Compensation" is change-your-life material.