Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Nietzsche never traveled anywhere without his volume of Emerson's essays; Matthew Arnold described Emerson as "the greatest prose writer this century." Considered in his own time a profoundly radical thinker, later reviewed as a bland Boston Brahmin, Emerson is a seminal American writers, a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker. This volume contains his Essays, First Series (1841), Second Series (1844), and a selection of poems including "The Problem," "The Snow-Storm," and "Concord Hymn."
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Table of Contents
Essays, First Series: History; Self-Reliance; Compensation; Spiritual Laws; Love; Friendship; Prudence; Heroism; The Over-Soul; Circles; Intellect; Art. Essays, Second Series: The Poet; Experience; Character; Manners; Gifts; Nature; Politics; Nominalist and Realist. Poems: Concord Hymn; The Problem; Uriel; Mithridates; Hamatreya; Earth-Song; The Snow-Storm; Monadnoc; Fable; Ode; Give All to Love; Merlin - 1; Merlin - 2; Bacchus; Xenophanes; Brahma; Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, 4 July 1857; Rubies; Days.