page_title: Representative Men
hierarchical_section_title: Representative Men
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page for Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Published by Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.
context_page_description: Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great:
  Plato
  Emanuel Swedenborg
  Michel de Montaigne
  William Shakespeare
  Napoleon
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
context_section_description: Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great:
  Plato ("the Philosopher")
  Emanuel Swedenborg ("the Mystic")
  Michel de Montaigne ("the Skeptic")
  William Shakespeare ("the Poet")
  Napoleon ("the Man of the World")
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("the Writer")
caption: Representative Men (1850)
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