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Genre/Form: | Essays |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Joel Porte |
ISBN: | 0940450151 9780940450158 0521261171 9780521261173 |
OCLC Number: | 9392202 |
Notes: | Spine title: Essays and lectures. "Joel Porte wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume"--Leaf ff. title page. |
Description: | 1321 pages ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Nature. Nature ; Commodity ; Beauty ; Language ; Discipline ; Idealism ; Spirit ; Prospects -- Addresses -- Lectures -- Essays, first series. History ; Self-reliance ; Compensation ; Spiritual Laws ; Love ; Friendship ; Prudence ; Heroism ; The Over-soul ; Circles ; Intellect ; Art -- Essays, second series. The poet ; Experience ; Character ; Manners ; Gifts ; Nature ; Politics ; Nominalist and realist ; New England reformers : lecture at Amory Hall -- Representative men. Uses of great men ; Plato, or, The philosopher ; Swedenborg, or, The mystic ; Montaigne, or, The skeptic ; Shakespeare, or, The poet ; Napoleon, or, The man of the world ; Goethe, or, The writer -- English traits. First visit to England ; Voyage to England ; Land ; Race ; Ability ; Manners ; Truth ; Character ; Cockayne ; Wealth ; Aristocracy ; Universities ; Religion ; Literature ; The "Times" ; Stonehenge ; Personal ; Result ; Speech at Manchester -- The conduct of life. Fate ; Power ; Wealth ; Culture ; Behavior ; Worship ; Considerations by the way ; Beauty ; Illusions -- Uncollected prose. The Lord's supper ; Dial essays. |
Series Title: | Library of America. |
Other Titles: | Essays and lectures. Nature. Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life. Prose works. |
Responsibility: | Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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