The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$46.47
- Paperback
880 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2000
Summary
Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized “the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679783220 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679783229 |
| Author: | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson, Mary Oliver |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 880 |
| Edition: | 2000th |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 607g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 47mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil.” –Walt Whitman
“I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil.”
–Walt Whitman
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Mary Oliver is the author of The Leaf and the Cloud, West Wind, and A Poetry Handbook, among others. Over the past two decades she has taught at various colleges and universities-Case Western Reserve, Bucknell, Sweet Briar College, the University of Cincinnati, and Bennington College in Vermont. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Hobe Sound, Florida.
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