Book cover for The portable Emerson
Description
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.
Publisher Penguin Books
ISBN10 0140150943
ISBN13 9780140150940
Number of Pages 810
File Size DL-342MB
Shelf Number HK649
Grade Range 12 - 12
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download