Emerson on Transcendentalism

by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Ericson (Editor)

Overview

The full texts of four seminal works by Emerson are presented in this volume: 'Nature, ' 'The American Scholar, ' 'The Divinity School Address, ' and 'The Transcendentalist.' Edward Ericson assesses that impact in his helpful introduction and evaluates anew Emerson's continuing influence on American culture in our century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804469487
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/01/1986
Series:	Milestones Of Thought Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.26(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Born in 1803, RALPH WALDO EMERSON became one of the founders of the transcendentalist movement and one of America’s most beloved thinkers. His 1836 essay, “Nature” became a key exploration of the ideas of transcendentalism that would inform the work of contemporaries like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. Throughout his life, Emerson wrote essays and poems and delivered numerous lectures developing his ideas and critiquing the mores of his time.