Essays & lectures

Title:

Essays & lectures

Title:

Essays & lectures

Prose works. Selections

Essays and lectures

Nature

Representative men

English traits

Conduct of life

The Library of America

Library of America.

Personal Author:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Porte, Joel.

Series:

Library of America.

Publication Information:

New York : Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, c1983.

ISBN:

0940450151 :

OCLC#:

ocm09392202

Language:

English

Contents:

Nature; addresses, and lectures -- Essays : first series -- Essays : second series -- Representative men -- English traits -- The conduct of life .

Nature; addresses, and lectures: Introduction ; Nature ; Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; Discipline ; Idealism ; Spirit ; Prospects. Addresses: The American scholar : an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 ; An address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838 ; Literary ethics : an address to the Literary Societies in Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838 ; The method of nature : an address to the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841. Lectures: Man the reformer : a lecture read before the Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841 ; Introductory lecture on the times : read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, Dec. 2., 1841 ; The conservative : a lecture read in the masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1842 ; The transcendentalist : a lecture read in the Mason Temple, Boston, January 1842 ; The young American : a lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844 -- 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 ; Manners ; Gifts ; Nature ; Politics ; Nominalist and realist ; New England reformers : lecture at Armory Hall -- Representative men: Uses of great men ; Plato; or, the philosopher. Plato : new readings ; 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.

Format:

Book

Length:

1321 p. ;

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Summary

Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes.

Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works, including "The American Scholar" ("our intellectual Declaration of Independence," as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), "The Divinity School Address," considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to "Self-Reliance," along with the more embattled realizations of "Circles" and, especially, "Experience." Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other "representative men," and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people.

This volume includes Emerson's well-known Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849), his Essays- First Series (1841) and Essays- Second Series (1844), plus Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), and his later book of essays, The Conduct of Life (1860). These are the works that established Emerson's colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust.The reasons for Emerson's influence and durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work.

Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America's greatest writer.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author Notes

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His principal publications include Nature (1836),two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).

Joel Porte (1933-2006), volume editor, won the Bowdoin Prize in 1962 for his essay on Emerson, and was granted the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Emerson Society in 2006. He authored many studies of nineteenth-century and modern literature, including Emerson and Thoreau- Transcendentalists in Conflict, The Romance in America , and Representative Man- Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Time .