Circles

Name: Circles
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781974910618

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/21/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

Circles is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay reflects on the vast array of circles one may find throughout nature, and what is suggested by these circles in philosophical terms. In the opening line of the essay Emerson states The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. Although he began his career as a Unitarian minister, he gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism instead. Seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, he disseminated his thoughts through published essays and public lectures across the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lilli

gorgeous gorgeous essay......more

Goodreads review by Héloïse

Got a tattoo because of this- 10/10 love me some Emerson......more

Goodreads review by Skye

So much to think about with this one. I love the way Emerson’s writings stay with me and permeate my mind for hours and hours. I reflect, and re-reflect, and am always able to learn something new with each reading.💚 “The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a he......more

Goodreads review by Robert Lloyd

An excellent essay on the beautiful journey our mind goes through both individually and collectively as the ages have gone by, and how our capacity to understand truth and light can expand. It was a beautiful read!......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

Mastery of words. If you use words eventually you go full-circle and go beyond words. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under......more