Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This selection of Emerson's essays, edited for schools by Edna H. L. Turpin in 1907, gathers eleven of his best-known pieces: The American Scholar, the Harvard address of 1837 that called for an intellectual independence from Europe; Compensation; Self-Reliance, with its demand that each person trust his own thought; Friendship; Heroism; Manners; Gifts; Nature; Shakespeare, or the Poet, from Representative Men; Prudence; and Circles. A short life of Emerson, a chronological list of his works, critical opinions and explanatory notes frame the texts. Emerson's sentences are built to stand alone, which is why he is so quoted and so hard to summarize; read in sequence, these essays show the shape of his thinking about the individual soul and the world it faces. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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