Mod Lib Essential Writings Of Emerson (Modern Library Classics)

Auhtor：Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paperback: 896 pages

Publisher: Random House Inc; 2000 Modern Library Pbk. Ed edition (10 May 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0679783229

ISBN-13: 978-0679783220

Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 4.8 x 20.3 cm

書籍簡介

Introduction by Mary Oliver

Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau

The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose."

作者簡介

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Mary Oliver is the author of The Leaf and the Cloud, West Wind, and A Poetry Handbook, among others. Over the past two decades she has taught at various colleges and universities--Case Western Reserve, Bucknell, Sweet Briar College, the University of Cincinnati, and Bennington College in Vermont. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Hobe Sound, Florida.