This edition gathers all the major works of Emerson, whose inspiring, exuberant philosophical voice defined the American grain.
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE.
Matthew Arnold called Emerson\'s essays the most important work done in prose.
More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American.
As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized the splendid labyrinth of one\'s own perceptions.
Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson\'s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life\'s work of a true American Scholar.
This edition gathers all the major works of Emerson, whose inspiring, exuberant philosophical voice defined the American grain
