Emerson on Transcendentalism

About the author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the most influential literary figures and the leading voice of intellectual culture in nineteenth-century America. An essayist, philosopher, poet and founder of the Transcendentalist movement, his many now-iconic writings include Nature, The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-soul, Society and Solitude and Concord Hymn. Mentor to Whitman and Thoreau, Emerson continues to exert a powerful influence on Western thought and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Continuum, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reinhold Grimm
• Assisted by: Edward Ericson (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1986
• EAN: 9780804469487
• ISBN: 978-0-8044-6948-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 121 mm x 195 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 132 g
• Series: Milestones of Thought; Milestones of Thought
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophiegeschichte, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy