Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Public domain
Category: Anthology
Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
Tags: Anthology, Misc. Non-fiction, Literature
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Written by: Ralph Waldo Emerson Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach Length: 14 hrs and 1 min Audiobook Release Date:01-10-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., Publishers Summary, Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history., Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps Americas most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced by a liberal religious training; theological study; personal contact with the Romanticists Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth; and a strong indigenous sense of individualism and self-reliance. Emersons best work was done between 1836 and 1860, a period which includes his famous Essays., These essays contain his most important writing and radiate with sensitivity and wonder. Here Emersons pro
