Ralph Waldo Emerson
1) Walden
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Classics Club library
Writings of Henry D. Thoreau volume Princeton Classics
His Writings
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Writings of Henry D. Thoreau volume Princeton Classics
His Writings
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1420L
Language
English
Description
Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.
Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months,...
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English
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During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual's relationship with divinity. One of the movement's most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his...
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English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of philosophies that attempt to explain the world and man's purpose within it.
Heavily vested in the philosophy of transcendentalism, though not one to label himself a true follower of the movement, Emerson...
4) Poems
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English
Description
Interspersed are passages from the author's "Essays" and "Journal."
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Publisher
Shambhala Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Shambhala library edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 179 pages : portrait ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The mind of Emerson," literary critic Harold Bloom once wrote, "is the mind of America." Indeed, Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays contain some of the most memorable and important expressions of American thought. Generations of readers have been stirred by Emerson's ideal of self-reliance, and his vision of nature as a manifestation of the divine spirit has profoundly influenced American naturalists and environmentalists from Thoreau's time to the present....
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English
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"A comprehensive collection of writings by "the most influential writer of the nineteenth century" (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson's diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emerson's admirers and proteges, while his central text, Nature, singlehandedly engendered an entire spiritual and...
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100 greatest masterpieces of American literature volume no. 98
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
A limited ed.
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here are some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most famous pieces, including the call to "Self-Reliance," the thorny realizations of "Circles" and "Experience," and the revolutionary accomplishment of "Nature." Emerson, who has been our nation's most persuasive advocate for individualism, also admits the forces that American society exerts against individualism. While praising what he refers to as "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and documents...
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Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1983
Edition
A limited ed.
Physical Desc
345 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ralph Waldo Emerson is best known as being a leader of the transcendentalist movement, a philosophy that emerged in the mid 19th century in New England. Transcendentalism was a general protest against established society and culture at the time that sought an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions. In this...
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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
84 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"This fully illustrated collection of writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the first American thinkers to incorporate the power of wild nature into his philosophy, provides timeless insight into the natural world and our place in it"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson's ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature.
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxxix, 568 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971-2013) was hailed as a major achievement of scholarship and textual editing. Drawing from the ten volumes of the Collected Works, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered some of Emerson's most memorable prose published during his lifetime and under his direct supervision. The editors have enhanced those selections with additional writings to produce the only anthology that...