The American Scholar

The American Scholar
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Total Pages : 142
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Synopsis The American Scholar by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Understanding Emerson

Understanding Emerson
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9780691099828
ISBN-13 : 0691099820
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Synopsis Understanding Emerson by : Kenneth Sacks

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The American Scholar (1838) by

The American Scholar (1838) by
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 30
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ISBN-10 : 1540369978
ISBN-13 : 9781540369970
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Synopsis The American Scholar (1838) by by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."

The Divinity School Address

The Divinity School Address
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Total Pages : 100
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Synopsis The Divinity School Address by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780374717445
ISBN-13 : 0374717443
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Synopsis The Reason for the Darkness of the Night by : John Tresch

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.

Emerson's Antislavery Writings

Emerson's Antislavery Writings
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0300094027
ISBN-13 : 9780300094022
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Synopsis Emerson's Antislavery Writings by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

A comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians - writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are 18 works by Emerson, including speeches and lectures, on the subject of slavery, written between 1838 and 1863.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 609
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ISBN-10 : 9780674286313
ISBN-13 : 0674286316
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Synopsis Ralph Waldo Emerson by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971–2013) was hailed as a major achievement of scholarship and textual editing. Drawing from the ten volumes of the Collected Works, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered some of Emerson’s most memorable prose published during his lifetime and under his direct supervision. The editors have enhanced those selections with additional writings to produce the only anthology that represents in a single volume the full range of Emerson’s written and spoken prose genres—sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays—that took on their public life in the pulpit or lecture hall, or on the printed page. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose demonstrates the remarkable scope of Emerson’s interests, from science, literature, art, philosophy, natural history, and religion to pressing social issues such as slavery and women’s rights, to the character of his contemporaries, including Lincoln and Thoreau. Emerson’s classic essays Nature, “Self-Reliance,” and “Experience” complement his less familiar but no less vital texts, including the deeply heterodox sermon on “The Lord’s Supper,” which effectively announced his resignation from the ministry, and late essays on “American Civilization,” “Character,” and “Works and Days.” Edited according to the most rigorous modern standards, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose provides an authoritative compendium of writings by one of America’s most significant literary figures and public intellectuals.

Literary Ethics / The Method of Nature (Annotated)

Literary Ethics / The Method of Nature (Annotated)
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Total Pages : 50
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ISBN-10 : 1523620056
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Synopsis Literary Ethics / The Method of Nature (Annotated) by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the pros literary anniversary. The land we live in has no interest so dear, if it knew its want, as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought. Where there is no vision, the people perish. The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the foundations of the earth. No matter what is their special work or profession, they stand for the spiritual interest of the world, and it is a common calamity if they neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Publisher : New York : Pocket Books : Washington Square Press, 1965 (1977 printing)
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435005344973
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Synopsis Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

A collection of writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including sermons, poems, and journal excerpts, as well as a portion of his contributions to "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," with critical interpretations, and essays that examine the context in which Emerson wrote, and his critical reception.

An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837

An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837
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Publisher : Legare Street Press
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ISBN-10 : 101990092X
ISBN-13 : 9781019900925
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Synopsis An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this famous speech, Emerson encouraged American intellectual independence from Europe and urged American writers to develop their own styles instead of imitating European literature. He believed that America had the potential to become a new cultural center for the world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.