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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar," in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence".
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures, first, and then, revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, ''Essays: First Series'' (1841) and ''Essays: Second Series'' (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul,” "Circles,” "The Poet,” and "Experience". Together, with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but rather, by developing certain ideas, such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach, by rejecting views of God as separate from the world".
He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers, and poets that followed him. "In all my lectures," he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well-known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist. Provided by Wikipedia
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The collected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Belknap Press, 1971Description: volumes <1-3 > : illustrations ; 24 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Complete essays and other writings by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Modern Library, 1950Description: xxvii, 930 pages ; 19 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Essays & lectures by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, 1983Description: 1321 pages ; 21 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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The heart of Emerson's journals by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Representative men : seven lectures Popular edition. by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883Description: 276 pages, 372 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Journals and miscellaneous notebooks by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960Description: 16 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, including Essays, first and second series, English traits, Nature and Conduct of life by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: The Book League of America, 1941Description: viii, 478 pages ; 21 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Emerson: a modern anthology by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Houghton Mifflin, 1958Description: 399 pages ; 21 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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The complete writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson : containing all of his inspiring essays, lectures, poems, addresses, studies, biographical sketches and miscellaneous works . by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: W. H. Wise & Co., 1929Description: 2 volumes : frontispieces (portraits) ; 25 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Concord ed. by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903Description: 12 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Essays Apollo editions. by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Crowell, 1951Description: xxix, 438 pages ; 20 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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The complete writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson : containing all of his inspiring essays, lectures, poems, addresses, studies, biographical sketches and miscellaneous works 4th ed. by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: W.H. Wise, 1930Description: 2 volumes (viii, 1435 pages) : portraits ; 25cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Emerson's literary criticism by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: University of Nebraska Press, 1979Description: xlix, 251 pages ; 21 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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Essays by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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The selected letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Collected poems and translations by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
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Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Published: Houghton Mifflin, 1957Description: 517 pages ; 21 cm.Call Number: Loading…
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