Essays & Poems Emerson:

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Author:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Number of Pages:
368
ISBN-13:
9780460876773
ISBN-10:
0460876775
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03/31/1995
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group, Ltd.
Essays & Poems Emerson:  - ISBN: 9780460876773
Nietzsche said that he never travelled anywhere without a volume of Emerson's essays in his pocket, while Mathew Arnold described Emerson as 'the greatest prose writer of the century'. It is a remarkable writer who could at once appeal to a man considered a pillar of Victorian society, and to a man dedicated to bringing down such pillars.In his own time Emerson was considered a profoundly radical thinker, but after his death he was increasingly seen as a bland Boston Brahmin, contentedly ripening with the new England melons, benignly meditating on such viperous notions as the Over-soul.He is now appreciated as one of the truly seminal American writers, refusing all orthodoxies, complacencies and fixities—both a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker.A unique paperback edition, with introduction and chronology of Emerson's life and times.