Essays and Poems

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO

ISBN 10: 0460876775 / ISBN 13: 9780460876773

Verlag: Tuttle Pub, 1995

May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 753070

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Nietzsche said that he never travelled anywhere without a volume of Emerson's essays in his pocket, while Mathew Arnold described Emerson as 'the greatest prose writer of the century'. It is a remarkable writer who could at once appeal to a man considered a pillar of Victorian society, and to a man dedicated to bringing down such pillars.

In his own time Emerson was considered a profoundly radical thinker, but after his death he was increasingly seen as a bland Boston Brahmin, contentedly ripening with the new England melons, benignly meditating on such viperous notions as the Over–soul.He is now appreciated as one of the truly seminal American writers, refusing all orthodoxies, complacencies and fixities—both a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker.

A unique paperback edition, with introduction and chronology of Emerson's life and times.

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Titel: Essays and Poems
Verlag: Tuttle Pub
Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good