Gifts, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gifts, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Gifts

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2018

Synopsis

In Gifts Ralph Waldo Emerson muses on the function of and expectations surrounding the giving of gifs. He touches on what gifts communicate about the nature of the giver and receiver, and how the best kind of gift is a gift of love.

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 Pritam

Emerson individually believes that it is very complicated to select a gift at Christmas and New Year. It is not a child’s play to pick a gift. It is at all times exceedingly pleasurable to be munificent in gifting someone. The author is usually bamboozled vis-à-vis the choice of an apposite gift for......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner......more

Goodreads review by Sean

This time Emerson is banging on about gifts in essay number 8 I have read by this geezer. Different and yet more of the same.......more

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