The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This comprehensive collection of Emerson's work includes his Address to Harvard Divinity College, his poetry, and the famous essays «Self-Reliance» (Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist), «Compensation», «The Poet», and his study of the English national character, English Traits, which earned him much admiration in England. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosopher and poet who developed the concept of New England Transcendentalism, a form of mystic idealism that promoted self-reliance, the progress of the spirit, and simple living.