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Nature and selected essays / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited with an introduction by Larzer Ziff.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Essays.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 415 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin, 2003.
- Summary:
- Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson's ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature.
- Contents:
- Nature
- The American scholar
- An address delivered before the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge
- Man the reformer
- History
- Self-reliance
- The over-soul
- Circles
- The transcendentalist
- The poet
- Experience
- Montaigne, or, The skeptic.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Selected essays, 1982.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 29-30).
- ISBN:
- 014243762X
- 9780142437629
- OCLC:
- 52429333
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