Essays Poems - Everyman's Library Paper Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson Nietzsche never traveled anywhere without his volume of Emerson's essays; Matthew Arnold described Emerson as "the greatest prose writer this century." Considered in his own time a profoundly radical thinker, later reviewed as a bland Boston Brahmin, Emerson is a seminal American writers, a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker. ... more »This volume contains his Essays, First Series (1841), Second Series (1844), and a selection of poems including "The Problem," "The Snow-Storm," and "Concord Hymn."« less