Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
This edition contains his major works, including Nature, the Essays Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, The Over.
Emerson was extremely prolific throughout his life; his collected writings fill forty volumes.
He believes that Truth lies within each individual, for each is part of a greater whole, a universal over-soul through which we transcend the merely mortal.
Emerson advocates a rejection of fear-driven conformity, a total independence of thought and spirit, and a life lived in harmony with nature.
Among their leaders was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and Poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, though he himself disliked the term.
As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity among the nations of the world, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be.
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Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras
