Seize Your Copy Selected Essays, Lectures, And Poems Authored By Ralph Waldo Emerson Distributed In Booklet

collection from Ralph Waldo Emerson consists of some of his more popular and influential writings, such as his lectures, speeches, essays, and poems, The writings are broken down into specific time periods of Emersons life, I think that above all this collection is illustrative of how deep and insightful thinker Emerson was into the human experience, Obviously, Emerson was one of the leading figures of Transcendentalism and that is reflected in this work as Nature is a continual theme, but I think that many of his points and reflections extend beyond past just one particular period or philosophical movement.


I think what I appreciate most from this collection are all the philosophical nuggets of wisdom and food for thought that Emerson provides and instills into the reader.
And, while I think the reader will latch onto and identify with specific pieces and passages more than others, I think there is something here for everyone to find some inspiration from.


There are so many “quotables” in this collection, I always have felt that “SelfReliance” was a powerful and thoughtprovoking essay and contains within it many points and reflections on living, avoiding conformity, and maintaining ones independence:

“It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion it is easy in solitude to live after our own but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist”

His essay “Pray Without Ceasing” speaks of the individual continually striving to overcome lifes pitfalls to maintain a positivity:

“Cast away this sickly despair that eats into the soul debarred from high eventsBeware of easy assent to false opinion, to low employment, to small vices”

Also included in the collection are such popular works as “Nature”, “The American Scholar” and “The Poet” as well as an essay on Thoreau.
Some of the poems included are “Concord Hymn”, “The Snow Storm” and “The Sphinx” among others,

This is the type of book to read when you unplug technology, get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday living and lifes demands, and just want to escape into solitude, reflection, and nature.
Emerson offers some insightful thoughts and reflections for living,

Some sublime highlights, particularly "Nature" which renders many of the subsequent essays redundant, "Circles", and "Thoreau, " The wonderful thing about Emerson is that, even when he is not saying anything particularly novel or interesting, his style remains passionate and inspirational, Thumbing through my collection of his essays, I find I've underlined little gems of prose throughout the entire book, even in the midst of some of his dullest pieces.
The poems are somewhat less consistent in quality, although I did enjoy "Days" and "The Rhodora" a good deal, Transcendentalism is, in my opinion, the school of thought that propelled this nation from the Civil War forwards into the modern age, There's so much to love about Emerson: joy, optimism, individualism, and a strange practicality to his philosophy, If you only read one essay though, make it SelfReliance, Some wonderful essays. Overall, I enjoyed it, though some essays were not for me, Emerson is credited with saying some of the most profoundly simple truths, These are things that just needed to be said out loud, L Rating for Poems, and Essays on Nature and Self Reliance Emerson is a deep favorite of mine, What a man. What a read. Always a pleasure to read bold statements about nature and the inner guiding light of a man, Would recommend to a friend in a state of deep emotional turmoil, who is questioning everything and trusts nobody,

Or they just really like nature, : A good collection of Emerson's work, but I just don't care for his writing, : Maybe my opinion was impacted by the fact that I had to read this for class, but this was the most dreadfully boring book I've read so far.
Circles was okay but the rest made me want to fall asleep after every word and confused me, Never picking this up again, sorry Emerson, Here is a collection of some of the poems and other writings of Emerson, In the work he also discusses poetry, The poems cover various topics, A collection worth its weight in gold Those who know me know that this book keeps the bears away! This is probably the last book of philosophy that I will read for a long time.
Some of Emerson's essays were enjoyable I'd recommend the essays Nature, SelfReliance, and Circles to anyone interested in becoming acquainted with Emerson's work, Other than that, Emerson's writings were either unbearably dry or, to me, nearly incomprehensible, In the first few paragraphs of the introduction the book already suggests Emerson as the greatest American thinker of his time and whether you might put a Thoreau on that throne or look at the influences of a previous generation in some respects Jonathan Edwards he certainly was one of the leading if not the leading American Transcendentalists.
Some might argue that Thoreau had a purer quality about him but Emerson's body of work is so much more substantial it's still mostly a matter of ones perspectivevolumes.


A good enough primer so long as you remember this is a very short book when compared to the whole, A new, wideranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emersons most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of Americas greatest philosophers and poets.


The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity.
As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature, “I become a transparent eyeball,” Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing I see all the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me I am part or particle of God.
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Written over a century ago, this passage is a striking example of the passion and originality of Emersons ideas, which continue to serve as a spiritual center and an ideological base for modern thought.



From the Paperback edition, Among the best essays I've read, Nature amp SelfReliance are particularly moving and inspiring, Helped immensely during Coronavirus lockdown, Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in, Educated at Harvard and the Cambridge Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister inat the Second Church Unitarian, The congregation, with Christian overtones, issued communion, something Emerson refused to do, Really, it is beyond my comprehension, Emerson once said, when asked by a seminary professor whether he believed in God, Quoted in ,Years of Freethought edited by sitelink Jim Haught, By, after the untimely death of his first wife, Emerson cut loose from Unitarianism, During a year long trip to Europe, Emerson became acquainted with such intelligentsia as British writer sitelink Thomas Carlyle, and poets sitelink Wordsworth and sitelink Coleridge.
He returned to the United States in, to a life Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in, Educated at Harvard and the Cambridge Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister inat the Second Church Unitarian, The congregation, with Christian overtones, issued communion, something Emerson refused to do, "Really, it is beyond my comprehension," Emerson once said, when asked by a seminary professor whether he believed in God, Quoted in ,Years of Freethought edited by sitelink Jim Haught, By, after the untimely death of his first wife, Emerson cut loose from Unitarianism, During a year long trip to Europe, Emerson became acquainted with such intelligentsia as British writer sitelink Thomas Carlyle, and poets sitelink Wordsworth and sitelink Coleridge.
He returned to the United States in, to a life as poet, writer and lecturer, Emerson inspired Transcendentalism, although never adopting the label himself, He rejected traditional ideas of deity in favor of an "Over Soul" or "Form of Good," ideas which were considered highly heretical, His books include Nature, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, Essays,vol,,, Nature, Addresses and Lectures, and three volumes of poetry, Margaret Fuller became one of his "disciples," as did sitelink Henry David Thoreau, The best of Emerson's rather wordy writing survives as epigrams, such as the famous: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
" Other one and two liners include: "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect" Self Reliance,.
"The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being" Journal,, "The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression it is a monster, It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain" Address to Harvard Divinity College, July,, He demolished the right wing hypocrites of his era in his essay "Worship": ", the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons" Conduct of Life,, "I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship" Self Reliance.
"The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal the things that are not seen are eternal, ' It puts an affront upon nature" English Traits ,, "The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant, " Civilization,. He influenced generations of Americans, from his friend sitelink Henry David Thoreau to sitelink John Dewey, and in Europe, sitelink Friedrich Nietzsche, who takes up such Emersonian themes as power, fate, the uses of poetry and history, and the critique of Christianity.
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