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Product: Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (with an Introduction by Stuart P. Sherman)
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During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his writings is presented here in this volume of the “Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.” In the first essay, “Nature,” Emerson publicly acknowledges the transcendental lifestyle. He describes how that which is man-made detracts from the beauty of the real world. Through nature, Emerson believed people could find spirituality and wholeness. Emerson also explored the American political spectrum in his essay “Politics.” The author believed that, through individual growth and wisdom, it would be possible for Americans to abolish government and rule autonomously. Until that point, though, the State needed to protect the individuals’ rights. Readers can explore Emerson’s philosophy and poetry in this collection which includes twenty-four of his most important essays and fifteen of his poems. This edition includes an introduction by Stuart P. Sherman and a biographical afterword.

Product: Emerson: The Ultimate Collection
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism.
The transcendentalists believe in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. They further believe that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays – Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 – represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

The collection:

•Nature
•The American Scholar
•The Conduct of Life
•English Traits
Essays - First Series
•History
•Self-Reliance
•Compensation
•Spiritual Laws
•Love
•Friendship
•Prudence
•Heroism
•The Over-Soul
•Circles
•Intellect
•Art
Essays - Second Series
•The Poet
•Experience
•Character
•Manners
•Gifts
•Nature
•Politics
•Nonimalist and Realist
•New England Reformers
Representative Men
•Plato; or, the Philosopher
•Plato; New Readings
•Swedenborg; or, the Mystic
•Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
•Shakspeare; or, the Poet
•Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
•Goethe; or, the Writer
Poems
•May-Day And Other Pieces
•Elements And Mottoes
•Quatrains And Translations