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Original Title:	Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures / Essays: First and Second
Series:	/ Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life
ISBN:	0940450151 (ISBN13: 9780940450158)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.loa.org/books/40-essays-lectures

Essays and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hardcover | Pages: 1348 pages

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Title	:	Essays and Lectures
Author	:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1348 pages
Published	:	November 15th 1983 by Library of America
Categories	:	Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Classics. Literature

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This first Library of America volume of Emerson’s writing covers the most productive period of his life, 1832–1860. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive self,” he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here are the indispensable and most renowned works, including “The American Scholar” (“our intellectual Declaration of Independence,” as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), “The Divinity School Address,” considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to “Self-Reliance,” along with the more embattled realizations of “Circles” and, especially, “Experience.” Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other “representative men,” and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people. This volume includes Emerson’s well-known Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849), his Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), plus Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and his later book of essays, The Conduct of Life (1860). These are the works that established Emerson’s colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust. Emerson’s enduring power is apparent everywhere in American literature: in those, like Whitman and some of the major twentieth-century poets, who seek to corroborate his vision, and among those, like Hawthorne and Melville, who questioned, qualified, and struggled with it. Emerson’s vision reverberates also in the tradition of American philosophy, notably in the writings of William James and John Dewey, in the works of his European admirers, such as Nietzsche, and in the avant-garde theorists of our own day who write on the nature and function of language. The reasons for Emerson’s durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work. Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America’s greatest writer.

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Turns out Emerson is remembered for his best work. The collected work is interesting because it reveals more of the mind behind the essays, but the essays themselves feel more like a product of their time than bolts of genuine, timeless insight like his best pieces. He raises interesting questions about his wide-ranging subjects of interest - national character, the nature of the sacrament of Communion and whether it makes sense given the history of the early Church, and every virtue he could

The first essay contained herein is the eight part essay, Nature. Emerson writes aphoristically and compellingly, each paragraph contained a line I feel drawn to underline. His writing is not always easy to understand without close reading, since he often uses common terms in idiosyncratic ways, but once one decodes his terminology, the way become easier; nonetheless, sometimes it seems more profitable to read him for general impressions than in meticulous detail. And if Nature at times seemed

Beautiful prose and an insightful outlook on the human condition.

The thing I like the best about Emerson is that he provides a pattern of life that I can live with. He balances the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical lives in a way that seems quite useful to me.I probably won't give this five stars just because he can be long-winded and boring at times, but there is still plenty of excitement too.I definitely am finding the second series of essays inferior to the first. I had high hopes for "Experience" for instance but found it unclear and

I find Ralph Waldo Emerson to be a natural philosopher. I have written an essay on Nature and may write another on The Poet soon.

The first essay contained herein is the eight part essay, Nature. Emerson writes aphoristically and compellingly, each paragraph contained a line I feel drawn to underline. His writing is not always easy to understand without close reading, since he often uses common terms in idiosyncratic ways, but once one decodes his terminology, the way become easier; nonetheless, sometimes it seems more profitable to read him for general impressions than in meticulous detail. And if Nature at times seemed

I'm reading Emerson's Essays, Series 1 & Series 2 from the American Library Edition, so while the collection is a little different, I am left with a series of questions which I would love to discuss with someone. Perhaps I am perverse, but I can't figure out where to stand in relation to Emerson. I suppose I want to be a believer, to follow him, to take his essays as personally instructive and applicable to my life. And yet at the same time, for the most part, I can't find how they are of