Nature and selected essays
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Nature and selected essays
（Penguin classics）（Penguin books, . Literature）
Penguin Books, 2003
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Originally published in the U.S.A.: Penguin American Library, 1982
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Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.
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- Introduction 7 Suggestions for Further Reading 29 A Note on the Text 31Essays Nature 1836 35 The American Scholar 1837 83 An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge 1838 107 Man the Reformer 1841 129 History (Essays, First Series) 1841 149 Self-Reliance (Essays, First Series) 1841 175 The Over-Soul (Essays, First Series) 1841 205 Circles (Essays, First Series) 1841 225 The Transcendentalist 1842 239 The Poet (Essays, Second Series) 1844 259 Experience (Essays, Second Series) 1844 285 Montaigne
- Or, the Skeptic (Representative Men) 1850 313 Napoleon
- Or, the Man of the World (Representative Men) 1850 337 Fate (The Conduct of Life) 1860 361 Thoreau 1862 393
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