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Emerson Poems

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Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled farmers who "fired the shot heard round the world" in the stirring "Concord Hymn," to the flower in "The Rhodora," whose existence demonstrates "that if eyes were made for seeing, / Then Beauty is its own excuse for being," Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature. Combining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson's poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.
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Authors:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781841597621
Number of Pages:
256
Publication Date:
02/09/2004
Publisher:
Everyman
Series:
Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Year Published:
2004
Publication Date:
02/09/2004
Place of Publication:
London
Language:
English
Imprint:
Everyman's Library
SKU:
9781841597621

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