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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
Unabridged: TBD
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/20/2011
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Synopsis
Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history.Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps Americas most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance. Emersons best work was done between 1836 and 1860, a period which includes his famous Essays.
These essays contain his most important writing and radiate with sensitivity and wonder. Here Emersons prose shows him to be both a vigorous thinker and a profound mystic, a man of exquisite feeling combined with stern moral fiber. His strong love of retirement from life, contemplation of the sublime and the mystic, his self-reliance, and his strong character left their stamp not only on such writers as Thoreau, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson but also on the American character at large.
