Essays
Автор:
Ralph Waldo EmersonЖанр:
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2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
133
Description
The titles of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays consist of a range of general concepts such as character, experience, friendship, history, intellect, love, nature, politics, prudence and, most famously, self-reliance. However, in no case is the content of an essay limited to considerations relevant to its title concept. Emerson’s style is digressive and aphoristic, his lengthy paragraphs strewn with terse, dogmatic assertions. The pieces record the diffuse preconceptions and opinions of the author, typically without arguing for them.
“Nature,” Emerson’s first published essay, was published independently five years before his first collection of essays. It became...
