Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Penguin is republishing Emersons classic work in an affordable, high quality edition, using the original text and artwork. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, the famed philosopher unburdened his young country of Europes traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism. Author Biography Ralph Waldo Emerson, the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach," and in 1829 became pastor of the Scond Church (Unitarian) in Boston. That same year he married Ellen Louise Tucker, who was to die of tuberculosis only seventeen months later. In 1832 Emerson resigned his pastorate and traveled to Eurpe, where he met Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a new career as a public lecturer, and married Lydia Jackson a year later. A group that gathered around Emerson in Concord came to be known as "the Concord school," and included Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour; and these lectures were the source of most of his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy , which views the world of phenomena as a sort of symbol of the inner life and emphasizes individual freedom and self-reliance. Emersons address to the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard (1837) and another address to the graduating class of the Harvard Divinity School (1838) applied his doctrine to the scholar and the clergyman, provoking sharp controversy. An ardent abolitionist, Emerson lectured and wrote widely against slavery from the 1840s through the Civil War. His principal publications include two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870). He died of pneumonia in 1882 and was buried in Concord. Details ISBN0141042486 Author Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Title NATURE Audience Age 18-17 Language English ISBN-10 0141042486 ISBN-13 9780141042480 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Tag TNXMAS007 Residence Concorde, MA, US Birth 1803 Death 1882 Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2009-10-27 NZ Release Date 2009-10-27 US Release Date 2009-10-27 UK Release Date 2009-10-27 Pages 128 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Series Penguin Great Ideas Publication Date 2009-10-27 Imprint Penguin USA DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:23058332;

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