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Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life (Library of America)
- Hardcover
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Publisher: Library of America
- Release Date: November 1983
- ISBN-10: 0940450151
- ISBN-13: 9780940450158
- List Price: $35.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe major works of Emerson's most productive period in their entirety: "Nature: Addresses and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," "English Traits," and "The Conduct of Life." |
Customer Reviews
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Wonderful
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Like fine wine, these essays get better with time. Beware of trying to rush through these fine philosophical teachings. Like Maxwell house, it's good to the last drop!
A complete work of art
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If you're considering more than one selection, stop. This is the only collection you need from Emerson. It's not only an exquisite read for the insights, prose, and poetry, but also for the overall experience of handling this volume--the lightness of the paper, the weight of the book. I am reading this on the heels of Walden, by Emerson's good friend, Henry David Thoreau, and I continue to be inspired and enthralled with every page. If you are an aspiring writer, you will find the finest of mentors, the most courageous of advocates. This is all the motivation you need to take your own chance in sharing your own deepest insights about the human experience.
The Most American Book of the Collection
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I have lately developed a love affair with the Library of America, and this is its most important book. Emerson more than any other struck a course for the future of American letters outside the confines of the British tradition. This edition has all of the standard essays you would find in any one volume paperback (Self-Reliance, Harvard Divinity School Address, etc.), plus many more less known yet important (e.g. the complete Representative Men).
I once was a paperback junkie, but there is something so beautiful in a well bound hardcover, and there are few hardcovers as both elegant and durable as the LOA.
Poverty with Dignity
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I haven't even bought this Lib. of America edition and I know it is important. I have the Thoreau collection and all I have to say is that these New England writers of that era were critical thinkers and universal in their thoughts. Of great importance is the understanding of true spirituality, which both Emerson and Thoreau embody. Thoreau once said "We are rich in proportion to the number of things we can afford to leave alone."
The philosopher of America
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It is wonderful to have all of Emerson's essays in one volume. Like his great pupil and friend Thoreau , Emerson is a poetic thinker of the highest order. His essays are filled with aphoristic gems . They contain not simply thoughts on different subjects but an organic and coherent way of seeing and understanding the world. They are the work of a genuine American philosophical voice.
There is so much to read here that it is difficult to know where to begin, though I have an especial feeling for 'Representative Men' with its exaltation of great individual human beings .Because he is so poetic and because his writing is so dense with meaning it does not always make for easy reading. But it is firm in principle and great in suggestiveness.
The way to understand where Whitman and in a sense even William James are coming from is to read this work.
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