The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)

Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau
 
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized “the splendid labyrinth of one’s own perceptions.” More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson’s essays “the most important work done in prose.”
 
INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

• The Nietzsche Reader
• Nature
• Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
• Walden and Civil Disobedience
• Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within
• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
• The Portable Thoreau (Penguin Classics)
• Complete Poems of Whitman (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
• The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.9 Part 1)
• English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)