Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Name: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781974904143

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 07/10/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner life and emphasizing individual freedom and self-reliance. This collection contains eleven of his most celebrated and memorable essays from this period: Self-Reliance, Nature, Circles, Friendship, Heroism, Prudence," "Compensation," "Gifts," "Manners," "Shakespeare; Or, the Poet," and "The American Scholar.""

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Although he began his career as a Unitarian minister, he gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism instead. Seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, he disseminated his thoughts through published essays and public lectures across the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eli on March 02, 2009

I would like to preface this review by saying that the body of the review has a lot "spiritual" talk and some people may find my words trite and very syrupy about my inner thoughts on life. So if you are feeling cynical right now, I think you will have a good chuckle. And, if you are like me, someon......more

Goodreads review by Marcus on August 25, 2014

No review, just one quote about children from the essay "Nature": Read it, it's kind of funny.The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 11, 2008

Emerson, for whom my eldest son is named, had a profound effect on me as a teenager. His essays were the first piece of "serious" literature I undertook to read for personal education around age 16. Though I can't say I wholly subscribe to them these days, his ideas on individualist spirituality res......more

Goodreads review by Bekah on July 14, 2008

Emerson, oh so wise: A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. A great man is always willing to be little. A man is what he thinks about all day long. All life is an experiment. The more experiments yo......more

Goodreads review by Carol on November 13, 2010

My mother gave me her copy of this a few years ago. Finally picked it up at just the right time, and holy crap is this good. Some of it I didn't get or had a hard time with the language or just didn't feel like reading about the particular essay topic that day. Most was just clear as a bell and ric......more