Ralph Waldo Emerson
, by EMERSON, RALPH WALDONote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780553213881 | 0553213881
- Cover: Trade Book
- Copyright: 9/1/1990
The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, this collection chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." 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." 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. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose