Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library

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Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.

Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of oneâ€™s own experience. From the embattled farmers who â€œfired the shot heard round the worldâ€ in the stirring â€œConcord Hymn,â€ to the flower in â€œThe Rhodora,â€ whose existence demonstrates â€œthat if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,â€ Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature.

Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emersonâ€™s poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400043163
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2004-09-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400043163

Country	USA
Brand	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781400043163
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2004-09-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400043163

Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

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