FRANKLIN LIBRARY: RALPH WALDO EMERSON ESSAYS: OVER-SOUL

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essay: First and Second Series," a Limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1984. Bound in dark tan leather, the book has light brown French moire silk end leaves, Smyth-sewn binding, acid-free paper, satin book marker, hubbed spine, and gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a 'minor hint' of fading to edges of the moire silk---mentioned for accuracy. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lived from 1803 – 1882, was the son of a Unitarian minister who was a member of an old Puritan family. At Harvard in 1820, he began keeping a voluminous journal that formed the basis of most of his essays and poems. Emerson was also a lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism. Drop-dead handsome Emerson married in 1829 but his wife died in 1831; he resigned his pastorate at Second Church, Boston and toured Europe where he met Carlyle, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. In 1855, Emerson remarried and settled in Concord where he was intimate with Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, Alcott and other Transcendentalists. Emerson and Lydia were the parents of a daughter, Ellen Tucker, and a son, Edward Waldo. Concord was two or three hours from the City of Boston if one measured the distance by the lumbering stages that traveled the Lexington Road past Emerson's house. In 1870, he gave a series of lectures at HARVARD. His "Representative Men," "History," "Self-Reliance," "Spiritual Laws," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "Intellect," were widely read. Emerson preached the doctrine of higher individualism, the spiritual nature of reality, the importance of self-reliance, the obedience to instinct, the obligation of optimism and hope, and the existence of a unifying Over-soul which explains the many diverse phenomena of life. 400 pages. [I have a listing of Emerson's Poems in the same series listed.] I offer Combined shipping.

Price: 29.95 USD

Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

End Time: 2024-11-06T00:22:17.000Z

Shipping Cost: 8 USD