EssaysXist Publishing, 2015 M04 20 - 347 pages Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays are an American classic. These essays explore Emerson's thoughts about transcendentalism and romanticism. Some of the most famous essays in this collection are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
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... poems are not and hardly can become popular; they are not meant to be liked by the many, but to be dearly loved and ... poetic license which we allow in the verse of Emerson is more than excused by the noble spirit which makes us forget ...
... poems are not and hardly can become popular; they are not meant to be liked by the many, but to be dearly loved and ... poetic license which we allow in the verse of Emerson is more than excused by the noble spirit which makes us forget ...
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... poets. But I go farther, and say that I do not place him among the great writers, the great men of letters. Who are ... poetic and literary productions when he says: 'For me it is too ethereal, speculative, theoretic; I will have all ...
... poets. But I go farther, and say that I do not place him among the great writers, the great men of letters. Who are ... poetic and literary productions when he says: 'For me it is too ethereal, speculative, theoretic; I will have all ...
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... Poems 1847 Miscellanies 1849 Representative Men 1850 English Traits 1856 Conduct of Life 1860 Society and Solitude 1870 Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and R.W. Emerson 1883 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. This address was delivered at Cambridge ...
... Poems 1847 Miscellanies 1849 Representative Men 1850 English Traits 1856 Conduct of Life 1860 Society and Solitude 1870 Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and R.W. Emerson 1883 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. This address was delivered at Cambridge ...
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... poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can ...
... poets have Shakespearized now for two hundred years. Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can ...
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... poets sing;—and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order: there is no trifle, there is no puzzle, but one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench. This idea has ...
... poets sing;—and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order: there is no trifle, there is no puzzle, but one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench. This idea has ...
Contents
FRIENDSHIP 117 | |
HEROISM 139 | |
MANNERS 156 | |
GIFTS 187 | |
SHAKESPEARE 217 | |
PRUDENCE OR THE POET 243 | |
CIRCLES 260 | |
NOTES 279 | |
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