Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom - Hardcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250828791 ISBN 13: 9781250828798

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2022

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Daily inspiration from American philosopher and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson

Featuring excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays, poems, and lectures, Everyday Emerson offers 365 snippets of wisdom and insight from one of America's greatest writers and philosophers. An astute observer of both nature and society, Emerson's writing touches on themes of individuality, freedom, and human potential, all of it shot through with a profound love and awe of the natural world.

The excerpts in Everyday Emerson are inspiring and thought provoking--a daily invitation to engage the world with imagination and intention. In addition to daily quotes, the end of the book also includes selections from Emerson's beloved essay "Self-Reliance." Both longtime appreciators of Emerson's work and readers who would be intimidated by a complete book of essays will find something delightful in its pages.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the most influential literary figures and the leading voice of intellectual culture in nineteenth-century America. An essayist, philosopher, poet and founder of the Transcendentalist movement, his many now-iconic writings include Nature, The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-soul, Society and Solitude and Concord Hymn. Mentor to Whitman and Thoreau, Emerson continues to exert a powerful influence on Western thought and literature.

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• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250828791
• ISBN 13: 9781250828798
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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