Explore the essays of major American writer and thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson—a key player in the nineteenth-century literary “American Renaissance.” Gain deeper insight into Transcendentalist thought with some of Emerson’s most important works, and open a window onto the intellectual climate of New England during the mid-1800s. The spirit and ideas of Emerson’s teaching are aptly expressed in the works contained in this volume. Find famous essays such as Self Reliance, The Poet, and The Over-soul. Discover Nature, which expresses the philosophy of Transcendentalism, and examine The American Scholar, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. called America’s “Intellectual Declaration of Independence.”
This volume also includes English Traits, where Emerson writes of his travels, offering his observations about England. Follow Emerson throughout his illustrious career and learn more about his crucial role in the history of American thought and artistic life.
The Harvard Classics
Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics.
