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Essays, Second Series

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Read by Bob Neufeld · 6 h 35 min · 9 parts

  1. The Poet

    59:48

  2. Experience

    60:24

  3. Character

    39:36

  4. Manners

    54:23

  5. Gifts

    10:15

  6. Nature

    44:08

  7. Politics

    36:05

  8. Nominalist and Realist

    37:28

  9. New England Reformers

    52:57

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Artistic expression and everyday conduct stand side by side in Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1844 essay collection. Its opening essay, The Poet, challenges the idea that taste can be measured by familiarity with paintings and sculpture. Emerson asks what gives an artist the power to express experiences that other people struggle to put into words, linking poetry with thought, character and the visible world.

The collection also turns toward social life. A passage on manners uses anecdotes about Mr. Fox to consider generosity, courtesy and the claims of fashionable society. Emerson takes social polish seriously while testing it against kindness and personal worth. Alongside these concerns, the contents include essays on experience, gifts, nature, politics and reformers in New England.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.

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Pages
103
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English
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