The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random House Publishing Group, 2000年9月12日 - 880 頁

Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
 
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized “the splendid labyrinth of one’s own perceptions.” More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson’s essays “the most important work done in prose.”
 
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

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用戶評語  - LisaMaria_C - LibraryThing

American philosopher and Harvard professor Stanley Cavell claims "Emerson and Thoreau... are the founding philosophers of America" and comparable to Plato. Before reading this I tackled Thoreau ...

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用戶評語  - heidilove - LibraryThing

I outgrew the transcendentalists by the time i was 16, but I think everyone should go through an Emerson-Thoreau period.

內容

• NATURE: 1
• THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR: 43
• AN ADDRESS: 61
• THE TRANSCENDENTALIST: 81
• THE LORDS SUPPER: 97
• FIRST SERIES: 111
• Love: 154
• SECOND SERIES: 285
• OR THE PHILOSOPHER: 421
• NAPOLEON OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD: 449
• ENGLISH TRAITS: 467
• Personal: 606
• CONDUCT OF LIFE: 619
• SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE: 663
• FARMING: 673
• POEMS: 683

關於作者

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Mary Oliver is the author of The Leaf and the Cloud, West Wind, and A Poetry Handbook, among others. Over the past two decades she has taught at various colleges and universities—Case Western Reserve, Bucknell, Sweet Briar College, the University of Cincinnati, and Bennington College in Vermont. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Hobe Sound, Florida.

書目資訊

• 書名: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Modern Library Classics
• 作者: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 編者: Brooks Atkinson
• 著作人: Mary Oliver
• 出版者: Random House Publishing Group, 2000
• ISBN: 0679783229, 9780679783220
• 頁數: 880 頁