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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Modern Library Classics Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brooks Atkinson (Editor) The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." — As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thoug... more »ht, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose."« less