Shakespeare Or, the Poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shakespeare Or, the Poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Shakespeare; Or, the Poet

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Unabridged: 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2018

Synopsis

In The Poet, an essay by U.S. writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. It is not about men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet. After reading the essay, Walt Whitman consciously set out to answer Emerson's call. When the 1855 edition of Leaves Of Grass was first published, Whitman sent a copy to Emerson, whose letter in response helped launch the book to success. In that letter Emerson called the collection the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.

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 Deborah on February 06, 2015

What this essay says, in case you don't feel like reading it: 1. Good poetry is pretty. Great poetry feels inevitable. 2. Good poetry can tell the story of an age; great poetry is for the ages, and lives on long after the poet and his culture have rotted away. 3. Great poetry makes us feel as if we've......more

Goodreads review by Hayden on May 06, 2023

Read for ENG 445: American Lit 1820-1870......more

Goodreads review by Justė on December 21, 2020

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Goodreads review by Maria on January 17, 2025

The classes we had on this, and the reading of it, will always be one of my most treasured experiences in this stage of life.......more

Goodreads review by Ida on October 02, 2015

...he stands one step nearer to things, and sees the flowing of metamorphosis . . . his speech flows with the flowing of nature... and he speaks most adequately when he speaks somewhat wildly.......more

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