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One of Fortune's 'Best Books of 2021' When Ralph Waldo Emerson
published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United
States was still reeling from the effects of a calamitous financial
collapse four years earlier. His positive vision for the power of
individualism and personal responsibility was issued in a climate
of panic and uncertainty, at a time when the values of society and
humanity were shifting. Emerson's text is widely available to read
online, but this new edition, produced with Design Observer,
elevates his wisdom through the printed word. The global pandemic
of 2020 has reshaped our world as well as our thinking, but
Emerson's call to independence remains as relevant and energizing
as ever. Written as the first waves of the virus surged, Jessica
Helfand's twelve accompanying essays address various aspects of
artistic engagement - writing, drawing, thinking, making -
expanding on the spirit of Emerson's essay to reimagine the process
and practice of what it means to be truly creative. Presented in a
covetable pocket-book format intended to be read, carried,
consulted and to inspire throughout our new daily lives, and
featuring two marker ribbons for easy reference, this is a timeless
book for all places and all seasons.
'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.' Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayist and poet. One
of the young nation's first recognised public intellectuals, he
championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and
opined on everything from the evils of slavery to the glories of
solitude. His essays such as Self-Reliance argued for a distinctly
American style of philosophical individualism, untethered to
hidebound traditions and prejudices. Edited by professor David
Mikics (The Annotated Emerson) and enhanced with gorgeous woodcuts
by Charles W. Smith, this collection of Emerson's essays and poetry
is a beautiful introduction to one of America's greatest writers
and thinkers.
The six essays and one address in this volume outline the great transcendentalist's moral idealism as well as hinting at the later scepticism that colored his thought. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the well-known and frequently read Harvard Divinity School Address.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Penguin is republishing Emerson's classic work in an
affordable, high quality edition, using the original text and
artwork.
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 one's 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, Emerson's poems reveal a moving, more
intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.
Together in one volume, Emerson's "Nature" and Thoreau's "Walking,
" is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to
nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the leading figures in the thought
and literature of our civilisation. He was an essayist, critic,
poet, orator and popular philosopher. As a writer, he was always
concerned about his audience and his peers. Emerson's essays are a
series of loosely related impressions, maxims, proverbs and
parables. 'The Art of Successful Living' is a compilation of three
of his well-known essays -- Love, Friendship and Self-Reliance. In
these essays, he challenges and investigates the age-old traditions
and insists on the interpenetration of the ideal and the real, of
the spiritual and the material.
The selections include Emerson s major sermons, lectures, essays,
addresses, and poems, as well as excerpts from his journals,
notebooks, and correspondence. "Contexts" addresses the topics of
American Transcendentalism, philosophy, and Emerson's contemporary
reception. "Criticism" includes thirteen twentieth-century essays
by O. W. Firkins, Stephen E. Whicher, Perry Miller, Joel Porte,
Hyatt H. Waggoner, Julie Ellison, Michael T. Gilmore, Barbara
Packer, Stanley Cavell, Cornel West, Len Gougeon, Richard Poirier,
and Saundra Morris. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index
are included."
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo
Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense
of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own
circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather
than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance 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 Ziff's introduction to this collection of
fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the
important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his
formative years.
In July 1839 Emerson wrote in his journal: "A lecture is a new
literature...only then is the orator successful when he is himself
agitated & is as much a hearer as any of the assembly. In that
office you may & shall...yet see the electricity part from the
cloud & shine from one part of heaven to the other." In this
final volume of the early lectures we see the mature lecturer,
directing himself toward that eloquence to which he aspired and
finding a new vocation. With these lectures-ten from the series
"Human Life," nine from the series "The Present Age," the "Address
to the People of East Lexington," and two surviving lectures from
the series "The Times"-Emerson produced virtually all his earned
income from 1838-1842. The volume includes a biographical and
critical introduction. A comprehensive index has been carefully
prepared for the three volumes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental
movement in the United States became some of the most important
literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays,
Emerson takes the reader through different forms of philosophies
that attempt to explain the world and man's purpose within it.
Heavily vested in the philosophy of transcendentalism, though not
one to label himself a true follower of the movement, Emerson
believed that spirituality and wholeness were central to the ways
in which humans could place themselves within nature. Essays by
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of integral works that paved
the way for much influential literature to come, including, Louisa
May Alcott, and Margaret Fuller. With an eye-catching new cover and
an informative note about the author, this edition of Essays by
Ralph Waldo Emerson is both modern and readable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental
movement in the United States became some of the most important
literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays,
Emerson takes the reader through different forms of philosophies
that attempt to explain the world and man's purpose within it.
Heavily vested in the philosophy of transcendentalism, though not
one to label himself a true follower of the movement, Emerson
believed that spirituality and wholeness were central to the ways
in which humans could place themselves within nature. Essays by
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of integral works that paved
the way for much influential literature to come, including, Louisa
May Alcott, and Margaret Fuller. With an eye-catching new cover and
an informative note about the author, this edition of Essays by
Ralph Waldo Emerson is both modern and readable.
A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from
one of the greatest minds of 19th-century America, now in a
beautiful new package. Revised reissue.
Emerson's Essays have become the signature writings of the famous
American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not only did these
essays turn heads and open eyes in the mid nineteenth century, but
they are still doing the same today. His spiritual insights can be
seen most profoundly in New Thought and the work of Ernest Holmes
and the Science of Mind philosophy. So much so, that specific
essays are required reading in New Thought introductory classes.
One teacher who has earned the esteem of spiritual leaders
throughout New Thought, Dr. Carol Carnes has now provided readers
with the specific essays that influenced Ernest Holmes the most:
Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Spiritual Laws, Compensation, and
Circles. Each chapter includes an essay and Carol's commentary
along with her insightful questions for the reader. The entire book
has been edited to allow each reader to easily understand and grasp
these concepts on a personal level in the world of today.
Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S.
history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as
well as the value of collective social action. In the
mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how
Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world,
class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of
slavery.
Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive
anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries.
There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens,
Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel
Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical
innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on
religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature
continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.
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Excursions (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
Henry David Thoreau; Foreword by Jeffrey S. Cramer; Preface by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A selection of ruminative nature writing on walking and the
beauty of New England, here Thoreau's characteristically
wide-ranging and philosophical style offers a multitude of
fascinating observations. Excursions presents Thoreau's most
studied and expansive collection of writing on the natural world.
An early advocate of conservationism, he discusses here, in
mesmerising prose, the complex but essential relationship between
man and nature. This edition includes a remarkable Biographical
Sketch by Thoreau's great contemporary and mentor Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
This choice collection of Thoreau's nature writing includes the
essays 'The Succession of Forest Trees', 'Walking', and 'Autumnal
Tints' - each one an explorative reach into the heart of the
natural world. Thoreau's travels through the woods of New England
are not only physical journeys through some of the most
awe-inspiring landscapes in America but also spiritual excursions
of the mind.
A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism ( Our moods do
not believe in each other; Money often costs too much ), Emerson
has inspired countless writers. He challenged Americans to shut
their ears against Europe s courtly muses and to forge a new,
distinctly American cultural identity. But he remains one of
America s least understood writers. And, by his own admission, he
spawned neither school nor follower (he valued independent thought
too much). Now, in this annotated selection of Emerson s writings,
David Mikics instructs the reader in a larger appreciation of
Emerson s essential works and the remarkable thinker who produced
them.
Full of color illustrations and rich in archival photographs,
this volume offers much for the specialist and general reader. In
his running commentaries on Emerson s essays, addresses, and poems,
Mikics illuminates contexts, allusions, and language likely to
cause difficulty to modern readers. He quotes extensively from
Emerson s "Journal" to shed light on particular passages or lines
and examines Emerson the essayist, poet, itinerant lecturer, and
political activist. Finally, in his Foreword, Phillip Lopate makes
the case for Emerson as a spectacular truth teller a model of
intellectual labor and anti-dogmatic sanity.
Anyone who values Emerson will want to own this edition. Those
wishing to discover, or to reacquaint themselves with, Emerson s
writings but who have not known where or how to begin will not find
a better starting place or more reliable guide than "The Annotated
Emerson."
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