

Prudence
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Phil Paonessa
Unabridged: 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/21/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator: Phil Paonessa
Unabridged: 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 08/21/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
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.
“Poetry and prudence should be coincident. Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code and the day’s work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted. We have violated law upon law until we stand am......more
On the other hand, nature punishes any neglect of prudence. If you think the senses final, obey their law. If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect percepti......more
THe blurb here says one of the many essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, well that is accurate and it is about prudence without being dense or about Prue.......more
Standard Emerson. Divide and define. Wonderful.......more