Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781721238972)

The Complete Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 23 Classic Essays. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN-10: 1721238972
ISBN-13: 9781721238972
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2018
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.49d