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IntroductionbyMaryOliverCommentarybyHenryJames,RobertFrost,MatthewArnold,OliverWendellHolmes,andHenryDavidThoreauThedefinitivecollectionofEmerson’smajorspeeches,essays,andpoetry,TheEssentialWritingsofRalphWaldoEmersonchroniclesthelife’sworkofatrue“AmericanScholar.”Asoneofthearchitectsofthetranscendentalistmovement,Emersonembracedaphilosophythatchampionedtheindividual,emphasizedindependentthought,andprized“thesplendidlabyrinthofone’sownperceptions.”Morethananywriterofhistime,heforgedastyledistinctfromhisEuropeanpredecessorsandembodiedanddefinedwhatitmeanttobeanAmerican.MatthewArnoldcalledEmerson’sessays“themostimportantworkdoneinprose.”INCLUDESAMODERNLIBRARYREADINGGROUPGUIDE,
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WinnerofboththePulitzerPrizeandtheNationalBookAward,MaryOliveristheauthorofTheLeafandtheCloud,WestWind,andAPoetryHandbook,amongothers.Overthepasttwodecadesshehastaughtatvariouscollegesanduniversities—CaseWesternReserve,Bucknell,SweetBriarCollege,theUniversityofCincinnati,andBenningtonCollegeinVermont.ShelivesinProvincetown,Massachusetts,andHobeSound,Florida.