Emerson's Essays: Complete First & Second Series - Paperback

This Emerson's Essays collection includes over twenty essays and addresses, including such classic works as Self-Reliance, Compensation, Friendship, The Over Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, Nature and many more.This complete First & Second series collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays offers the towering wisdom and intellectual prowess. Emerson's most famous essays, filled with quotable passages concerning different aspects of humanity and life.Owing to their unique style, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson have found an appreciative and admiring audience for two centuries. Seen by many as the guiding light for the individualist philosophy that was to underpin the astonishing growth of the United States, Emerson's essays are a superb demonstration of the rigorous thought and intellectual contributions he made to the world around him.These Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a timeless collection of essays that embodies the essence of transcendentalism, the 19th-century philosophical movement that celebrated the intrinsic connection between humanity and the natural world.Ralph Waldo Emerson was a tireless and diligent public intellectual who would deliver over 1500 lectures over the course of his career, educating thousands of people within academia and wider society about his beliefs, principles and personal philosophy.