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Nature and selected essays / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited with an introduction by Larzer Ziff.
Title:
Nature and selected essays
Author:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
ISBN:
9780142437629
Uniform Title:
Essays. Selections
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin, 2003.

©1982.
Physical Description:
415 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Title:
Penguin

classics

classics.
General Note:
Originally published: Selected essays, 1982.
Contents:
Nature -- The American scholar -- An address delivered before the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge -- Man the reformer -- History -- Self-reliance -- The over-soul -- Circles -- The transcendentalist -- The poet -- Experience -- Montaigne, or, The skeptic.
Summary:
Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson's ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature.
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