Memorable Quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Born in Boston, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) was one of America's most prominent authors and thinkers. A Unitarian minister, he left his only pastorate, Boston's Old North Church (1829–32), because of doctrinal disagreements. On a trip to Europe Emerson met Thomas Carlyle, S.T. Coleridge, and Wordsworth, whose ideas, along with those of Plato, the Neoplatonists, Asian mystics, and Swedenborg, intensely influenced his philosophy. Returning home (1835), he settled in Concord, Mass., which he, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, and others made a base of transcendentalism. He stated the movement's main principles in Nature (1836), stressing the mystical unity of nature. A distinguished lecturer, Emerson called for American intellectual independence from Europe in his Phi Beta Kappa address at Harvard (“The American Scholar,” 1837). In an address at the Harvard divinity school (1838), he stressed that redemption could be found only in one's own soul and intuition. Emerson developed transcendentalist themes in his well-known Journal (kept since his student days at Harvard), in the magazine The Dial, and in his series of Essays (1841, 1844). Among the best known of his essays are “The Over-Soul,” “Compensation,” and “Self-Reliance.” He is also notable for his poems, among others, “Threnody,” “Brahma,” and “The Problem.” His later works include Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and The Conduct of Life (1870).
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Memorable Quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Born in Boston, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) was one of America's most prominent authors and thinkers. A Unitarian minister, he left his only pastorate, Boston's Old North Church (1829–32), because of doctrinal disagreements. On a trip to Europe Emerson met Thomas Carlyle, S.T. Coleridge, and Wordsworth, whose ideas, along with those of Plato, the Neoplatonists, Asian mystics, and Swedenborg, intensely influenced his philosophy. Returning home (1835), he settled in Concord, Mass., which he, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, and others made a base of transcendentalism. He stated the movement's main principles in Nature (1836), stressing the mystical unity of nature. A distinguished lecturer, Emerson called for American intellectual independence from Europe in his Phi Beta Kappa address at Harvard (“The American Scholar,” 1837). In an address at the Harvard divinity school (1838), he stressed that redemption could be found only in one's own soul and intuition. Emerson developed transcendentalist themes in his well-known Journal (kept since his student days at Harvard), in the magazine The Dial, and in his series of Essays (1841, 1844). Among the best known of his essays are “The Over-Soul,” “Compensation,” and “Self-Reliance.” He is also notable for his poems, among others, “Threnody,” “Brahma,” and “The Problem.” His later works include Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and The Conduct of Life (1870).
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| BN ID: | 2940013686328 |
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| Publisher: | Jim Dell |
| Publication date: | 01/02/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 22 KB |
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