Essays: 1st and 2nd Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HQ17)

Circa 1905: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece and Endpapers

Original brown embossed cloth with gilt titles and decoration on the spine. 358 very clean and bright pages, pencil signature dated, 1906 0n the first free page. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age.Scarce! (HQ17)

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A compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more

In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language.” Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essays, including the exhortation to “Self-Reliance,” the embattled realizations of “Circles” and “Experience,” and the groundbreaking achievement of “Nature.” Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he calls “the great and crescive self,” he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Also gathered here are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, friendship, love, and much more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. [Google Books]