Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Representative Men: Seven Lectures
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Self-Help
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Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extoll the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great: Plato ("the Philosopher") Emanuel Swedenborg ("the Mystic") Michel de Montaigne ("the Skeptic") William Shakespeare ("the Poet") Napoleon ("the Man of the World") Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("the Writer")

Emerson in His Sermons

Emerson in His Sermons
Author: Susan L. Roberson
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826209832

Treating the sermons extensively as an autobiographical text, Roberson establishes that Emerson's years in the pulpit were pivotal and that his sermons are key texts in revealing the essential development of his thought. Central to Roberson's explication of the sermons is Emerson's conception of self-reliance, his invention of a new hero for a new age, and his merging of his own identity with that heroic ideal.