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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This edition gathers all the major works of Emerson, whose inspiring, exuberant philosophical voice defined the American grain.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Introduction by Mary Oliver</b><br> <b>Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau</b> <p/> The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, <i>The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson</i> 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." <p/> INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil.<br>--Walt Whitman<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, <b>Mary Oliver</b> is the author of <i>The Leaf and the Cloud, West Wind, </i>and <i>A Poetry Handbook, </i>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.

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