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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: The First and Second Series

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"Emerson'sproseishistriumph,bothaseloquenceandasinsight.AfterShakespeare,itmatchesanythingelseinthelanguage."-HaroldBloomHereareRalphWaldoEmerson'sclassicessays,includingtheexhortationto"Self-Reliance,"theembattledrealizationsof"Circles"and"Experience,"andthegroundbreakingachievementof"Nature."Ourmosteloquentchampionofindividualism,EmersonacknowledgesatthesametimethecountervailingpressuresofsocietyinAmericanlife.Evenasheextolswhathecalls"thegreatandcresciveself,"hedramatizesandrecordsitsvicissitudes.Alsogatheredherearehiswide-rangingdiscoursesonhistory,art,politics,friendship,love,andmuchmore.Foralmostthirtyyears,TheLibraryofAmericahaspresentedAmerica'sbestandmostsignificantwritinginacclaimedhardcovereditions.Now,anewseries,LibraryofAmericaPaperbackClassics,offersattractiveandaffordablebooksthatbringTheLibraryofAmerica'sauthoritativetextswithineasyreachofeveryreader.Eachbookfeaturesanintroductoryessaybyoneofaleadingwriter,aswellasadetailedchronologyoftheauthor'slifeandcareer,anessayonthechoiceandhistoryofthetext,andnotes.ThecontentsofthisPaperbackClassicaredrawnfromRalphWaldoEmerson:EssaysandLectures,volumenumber15intheLibraryofAmericaseries.Itisjoinedintheseriesbythreecompanionvolumes,gatheringEmerson'spoems,translations,andselectionsfromhisjournals.

作者简介

RalphWaldoEmerson,thesonofaUnitarianministerandachaplainduringtheAmericanRevolution,wasbornin1803inBoston.HeattendedtheBostonLatinSchool,andin1817enteredHarvard,graduatingin1820.Emersonsupportedhimselfasaschoolteacherfrom1821-26.In1826hewas"approbatedtopreach,"andin1829becamepastoroftheScondChurch(Unitarian)inBoston.ThatsameyearhemarriedEllenLouiseTucker,whowastodieoftuberculosisonlyseventeenmonthslater.In1832EmersonresignedhispastorateandtraveledtoEurpe,wherehemetColeridge,Wordsworth,andCarlyle.HesettledinConcord,Massachusetts,in1834,wherehebegananewcareerasapubliclecturer,andmarriedLydiaJacksonayearlater.AgroupthatgatheredaroundEmersoninConcordcametobeknownas"theConcordschool,"andincludedBronsonAlcott,HenryDavidThoreau,NathanielHawthorne,andMargaretFuller.EveryyearEmersonmadealecturetour;andtheselectureswerethesourceofmostofhisessays.Nature(1836),hisfirstpublishedwork,containedtheessenceofhistranscendentalphilosophy,whichviewstheworldofphenomenaasasortofsymboloftheinnerlifeandemphasizesindividualfreedomandself-reliance.Emerson'saddresstothePhiBetaKappasocietyofHarvard(1837)andanotheraddresstothegraduatingclassoftheHarvardDivinitySchool(1838)appliedhisdoctrinetothescholarandtheclergyman,provokingsharpcontroversy.Anardentabolitionist,Emersonlecturedandwrotewidelyagainstslaveryfromthe1840'sthroughtheCivilWar.HisprincipalpublicationsincludetwovolumesofEssays(1841,1844),Poems(1847),RepresentativeMen(1850),TheConductofLife(1860),andSocietyandSolitude(1870).Hediedofpneumoniain1882andwasburiedinConcord.

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