Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator Phil Paonessa
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Summary
In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Many of those lectures formed the source material for his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which involved viewing the world of natural phenomena as a symbol of the inner life and emphasizing individual freedom and self-reliance. This collection contains eleven of his most celebrated and memorable essays from this period: “Self-Reliance,” “Nature,” “Circles,” “Friendship,” “Heroism,” “Prudence,” “Compensation,” “Gifts,” “Manners,” “Shakespeare; Or, the Poet,” and “The American Scholar.”
Duration: about 9 hours (08:55:01) Publishing date: 2018-08-21; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —