Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europes traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. This title introduces fifteen of Emersons most significant writings. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An indispensible look at Emersons influential life philosophyThrough his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europes traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to becreators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for areliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.Larzer Ziffs introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emersons most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators. Author Biography Ralph Waldo Emerson, the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach," and in 1829 became pastor of the Scond Church (Unitarian) in Boston. That same year he married Ellen Louise Tucker, who was to die of tuberculosis only seventeen months later. In 1832 Emerson resigned his pastorate and traveled to Eurpe, where he met Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a new career as a public lecturer, and married Lydia Jackson a year later. A group that gathered around Emerson in Concord came to be known as "the Concord school," and included Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour; and these lectures were the source of most of his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which views the world of phenomena as a sort of symbol of the inner life and emphasizes individual freedom and self-reliance. Emersons address to the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard (1837) and another address to the graduating class of the Harvard Divinity School (1838) applied his doctrine to the scholar and the clergyman, provoking sharp controversy. An ardent abolitionist, Emerson lectured and wrote widely against slavery from the 1840s through the Civil War. His principal publications include two volumes ofEssays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), andSociety and Solitude (1870). He died of pneumonia in 1882 and was buried in Concord.Larzer Ziff is a research professor of English at Johns Hopkins University who has written extensively on American literary culture. Table of Contents Introduction 7Suggestions for Further Reading 29A Note on the Text 31EssaysNature 1836 35The American Scholar 1837 83An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge 1838 107Man the Reformer 1841 129History (Essays, First Series) 1841 149Self-Reliance (Essays, First Series) 1841 175The Over-Soul (Essays, First Series) 1841 205Circles (Essays, First Series) 1841 225The Transcendentalist 1842 239The Poet (Essays, Second Series) 1844 259Experience (Essays, Second Series) 1844 285Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic (Representative Men) 1850 313Napoleon; Or, the Man of the World (Representative Men) 1850 337Fate (The Conduct of Life) 1860 361Thoreau 1862 393 Details ISBN014243762X Author Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Title NATURE & SEL ESSAYS Pages 416 Series Penguin Classics Language English ISBN-10 014243762X ISBN-13 9780142437629 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 814.3 Year 2003 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Larzer Ziff Birth 1803 Death 1882 Residence Concorde, MA, US DOI 10.1604/9780142437629 UK Release Date 2003-04-24 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Publication Date 2003-04-24 Replaces 9780140390131 Audience General NZ Release Date 2003-12-04 AU Release Date 2003-12-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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