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Emerson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the timeless themes of love and marriage, friendship and motherhood, the Everymans Library Pocket Poets set has it all. Theres something for everyone to enjoy in this 75-volume set, from Animal Poems to Zen Poems. Each book comes in an elegant 256-page pocket-sized hardcover edition (4 1/8" x 6 1/4"), with full-cloth covers, lovely illustrated and jewel-tone jackets, silk ribbon markers, and gold stamping. Perfect for your home library, or as a gift for any occasion.
This set includes one each of the following titles: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry edited by Peter Washington Animal Poems edited by John Hollander Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova Auden: Poems by W. H. Auden Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire Beat Poets edited by Carmela Ciuraru Blake: Poems by William Blake Blues Poems edited by Kevin Young Browning: Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Byron: Poems by Lord Byron, G. Gordon Chinese Erotic Poems edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping Christmas Poems edited by Peter Washington Coleridge: Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Comic Poems edited by Peter Washington Conversation Pieces by Kurt Brown The Dance edited by Emily Fragos Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson Doggerel edited by Carmela Ciuraru Donne: Poems by John Donne Eliot: Poems by T. S. Eliot Emerson: Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Bronte: Poems by Emily Bronte Erotic Poems edited by Peter Washington Eugene Onegin and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin Fatherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru Friendship Poems edited by Peter Washington Frost: Poems by Robert Frost Garden Poems edited by John Hollander The Great Cat edited by Emily Fragos Haiku edited by Peter Washington Hardy: Poems by Thomas Hardy Herbert: Poems by George Herbert Hopkins: Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes Indian Love Poems edited by Meena Alexander Jazz Poems edited by Kevin Young Keats: Poems by John Keats Kipling: Poems by Rudyard Kipling Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love Letters edited by Peter Washington Love Poems edited by Peter Washington Love Songs and Sonnets edited by Peter Washington Love Speaks Its Name by J. D. McClatchy Lullabies and Poems for Children edited by Diana Secker Larson Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander Marvell: Poems by Andrew Marvell Milton: Poems by John Milton Motherhood edited by Carmela Ciuraru On Wings of Song by J. D. McClatchy Persian Poets edited by Peter Washington Plath: Poems by Sylvia Plath Poe: Poems by Edgar Allen Poe Poems Bewitched and Haunted edited by John Hollander Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems by Robert Burns Poems of Mourning edited by Peter Washington Poems of New York edited by Elizabeth Schmidt Poems of Sleep and Dreams edited by Peter Washington Poems of the American West edited by Robert Mezey Poems of the Sea by J. D. McClatchy Prayers edited by Peter Washington Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke Rimbaud: Poems by Arthur Rimbaud The Roman Poets edited by Peter Washington Rossetti: Poems by Christina Rossetti Shakespeare: Poems by William Shakespeart Shelley: Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Solitude edited by Carmela Ciuraru Sonnets edited by John Hollander Stevens: Poems by Wallace Stevens Tennyson: Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson War Poems edited by Peter Washington Whitman: Poems by Walt Whitman Wordsworth: Poems by William Wordsworth Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. Synopsis:Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.
Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of ones own experience. From the embattled farmers who “fired the shot heard round the world” in the stirring “Concord Hymn,” to the flower in “The Rhodora,” whose existence demonstrates “that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,” Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature. Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emersons poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord. About the AuthorRalph Waldo Emerson (1803­—1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications Essays and Nature.
Table of ContentsFrom POEMS (1847)
The Rhodora The Humble-Bee Fable Astræa Etienne de la Boe´ce Suum Cuique Compensation Forbearance Berrying Thine Eyes Still Shined Eros Loss and Gain Hamatreya The Snow-Storm Painting and Sculpture Holidays From the Persian of Hafiz Ghaselle Xenophanes The Days Ration Blight Musketaquid Hymn (‘By the rude bridge that arched the flood) The Sphinx Each and All The Problem To Rhea The Visit Uriel The World-Soul From MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES (1867) Brahma Nemesis Fate Freedom Ode Sung in the Town Hall Boston Hymn Love and Thought Lovers Petition Una Letters Rubies Merlins Song The Test Nature I Nature II The Romany Girl My Garden The Titmouse Days Sea-Shore Two Rivers Waldeinsamkeit Terminus The Past Experience Compensation Culture Politics Heroism Character Friendship Beauty Manners Art Spiritual Laws Unity Worship Quatrains From SELECTED POEMS (1876) The Nuns Aspiration Hymn (‘We love the venerable house) Cupido Boston Silence The Three Dimensions Motto to ‘The Poet Motto to ‘Gifts Motto to ‘Nature Motto to ‘Nominalist and Realist Motto to ‘History South Wind From THE UNPUBLISHED POEMS ‘William does thy frigid soul ‘Perhaps thy lot in life is higher Song ‘I spread my gorgeous sail ‘O what is Heaven but the fellowship ‘Ah strange strange strange ‘See yonder leafless trees against the sky ‘Do that which you can do ‘Few are free Van Buren The Future Rex ‘And when I am entombed in my place ‘Bard or dunce is blest, but hard ‘It takes philosopher or fool ‘Tell men what they knew before ‘I use the knife ‘There is no evil but can speak ‘The sea reflects the rosy sky ‘In this sour world, O summerwind ‘Look danger in the eye it vanishes ‘As I walked in the wood ‘I sat upon the ground ‘Good Charles the springs adorer ‘Around the man who seeks a noble end ‘In the deep heart of man a poet dwells ‘O what are heroes prophets men ‘Yet sometime to the sorrow stricken The Bohemian Hymn ‘Kind & holy were the words ‘Divine Inviters! I accept ‘Go if thou wilt ambrosial Flower ‘In Walden wood the chickadee ‘Star seer Copernicus ‘At last the poet spoke ‘I grieve that better souls than mine Nantasket Water ‘Where the fungus broad & red ‘From the stores of eldest Matter ‘And the best gift of God ‘Stout Sparta shrined the god of Laughter ‘Brother, no decrepitude ‘Who knows this or that ‘Saadi loved the new & old ‘And as the light divided the dark ‘When devils bite ‘Comfort with a purring cat ‘I cannot find a place so lonely ‘This shining hour is an edifice ‘The sparrow is rich in her nest ‘Bended to fops who bent to him Elizabeth Hoar ‘Cloud upon cloud ‘Since the devil hopping on ‘Poets are colorpots ‘Thanks to those who go & come ‘I must not borrow light ‘Comrade of the snow & wind ‘God only knew how Saadi dined ‘Friends to me are frozen wine ‘That each should in his house abide New England Capitalist ‘On a raisin stone ‘Go out into Nature and plant trees ‘Pale Genius roves alone ‘Burn your literary verses ‘Intellect gravely broods apart on joy ‘The civil world will much forgive ‘Mask thy wisdom with delight ‘Roomy Eternity Terminus ‘More sweet than my refrain ‘O Boston city lecture-hearing ‘A patch of meadow & upland ‘And he like me is not too proud ‘Park & ponds are good by day ‘For Lyra yet shall be the pole ‘A score of airy miles will smooth ‘All things rehearse ‘Pedants all ‘I leave the book, I leave the wine ‘Easy to match what others do ‘If wishes would carry me over the land Maia ‘Seyd planted where the deluge ploughed ‘Forbore the ant hill, shunned to tread ‘Borrow Uranias subtile wings ‘The comrade or the book is good ‘Is the pace of nature slow? ‘Why honor the new men ‘Think not the gods receive thy prayer ‘Inspired we must forget our books ‘Upon a rock yet uncreate LONGER POEMS Woodnotes I May-Day The Adirondacs From The Poet What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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