An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837

An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
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ISBN: 9781019900925

In this famous speech, Emerson encouraged American intellectual independence from Europe and urged American writers to develop their own styles instead of imitating European literature. He believed that America had the potential to become a new cultural center for the world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The American Scholar (1838) by

The American Scholar (1838) by
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2016-11-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540369970

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."

Understanding Emerson

Understanding Emerson
Author: Kenneth Sacks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2003-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691099820

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Literary Ethics / The Method of Nature (Annotated)

Literary Ethics / The Method of Nature (Annotated)
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016-01-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523620050

Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the pros literary anniversary. The land we live in has no interest so dear, if it knew its want, as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought. Where there is no vision, the people perish. The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the foundations of the earth. No matter what is their special work or profession, they stand for the spiritual interest of the world, and it is a common calamity if they neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.