Emersons Essays

Emersons language is his greatest achievement in terms of eloquence and understanding. It is consistent with everything else in the language after Shakespeare.Richard Bloom Here are some of Ralph Waldo Emersons most famous pieces, including the call to Self-Reliance, the thorny realisations of Circles and Experience, and the revolutionary accomplishment of Nature. Emerson, who has been our nations most persuasive advocate for individualism, also admits the forces that American society exerts against individualism. While praising what he refers to as the great and crescive self, he dramatises and documents its vicissitudes. His numerous essays on history, art, politics, friendship, love, and other topics are also included here.
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