Title:
Essays & lectures / Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Author:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
ISBN:
9780940450158
Personal Author:
Publication Date:
1983
Publication Info:
New York :
Literary Classics of the U.S. :
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press,
[1983]
Physical Description:
1321 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Spine title: Essays and lectures.
"Joel Porte wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Leaf ff. title page.
Contents:
Nature. Nature ; Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; Discipline ; Idealism ; Spirit ; Prospects -- Addresses -- Lectures -- Essays, first series. History ; Self-reliance ; Compensation ; Spiritual Laws ; Love ; Friendship ; Prudence ; Heroism ; The Over-soul ; Circles ; Intellect ; Art -- Essays, second series. The poet ; Experience ; Character ; Manners ; Gifts ; Nature ; Politics ; Nominalist and realist ; New England reformers : lecture at Amory Hall -- Representative men. Uses of great men ; Plato, or, The philosopher ; Swedenborg, or, The mystic ; Montaigne, or, The skeptic ; Shakespeare, or, The poet ; Napoleon, or, The man of the world ; Goethe, or, The writer -- English traits. First visit to England ; Voyage to England ; Land ; Race ; Ability ; Manners ; Truth ; Character ; Cockayne ; Wealth ; Aristocracy ; Universities ; Religion ; Literature ; The "Times" ; Stonehenge ; Personal ; Result ; Speech at Manchester -- The conduct of life. Fate ; Power ; Wealth ; Culture ; Behavior ; Worship ; Considerations by the way ; Beauty ; Illusions -- Uncollected prose. The Lord's supper ; Dial essays.
Summary:
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Essays and lectures.
Nature.
Representative men.
English traits.
Conduct of life.
