The Portable Emerson

A comprehensive collection of writings by the most influential writer of the nineteenth century (Harold Bloom)

Ralph Waldo Emersons diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emersons admirers and protgs, while his central text,Nature, singlehandedly engendered an entire spiritual and intellectual movement in transcendentalism. This long-awaited updatethe first in more than thirty yearspresents the core of Emersons writings, includingNatureand The American Scholar, along with revelatory journal entries, letters, poetry, and a sermon.

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