Nature

Name: Nature
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9798887675701

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Ark

Unabridged: 2 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 11/18/2022

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Body, Mind, & Spirit

Synopsis

Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In the essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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 Dusty

I can't help but start this review with a truism: It's near impossible to read American books or process American popular culture or politics without somehow grappling with the legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. We know better than ever that no claim to understand any era can be made without reference t......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

I can't resist Emerson. I enjoyed Nature much less than "Self Reliance" but I still found myself admiring his prose. For a writer who said "I hate quotations," he sure supplies a plethora of pithy lines. My main problem with Nature was how anthropocentric it was. Nature is a powerful force through w......more

Goodreads review by a.rose

read a few essays in this collection for class (definitely did not read the whole book...). emerson is hella wordy but i did like his emphasis on renewing your connection to nature as well as his critique on scholars merely reading and rehashing great authors, rather than fully reflecting and making......more