MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES
MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES

Author: RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-01

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9360460818

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"May-Day and Other Pieces" is a collection of poems and articles by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an important American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist. This collection, which came out in the middle of the 1800s, shows Emerson's deep understanding of nature, society, and the human spirit. Emerson's transcendentalist theory, which stresses how humans are connected to the natural world, is reflected in the poem "May-Day," which is about the changing of the seasons and the beginning of a new life. There are also other beautiful pieces in the series in which Emerson writes about things like independence, freedom, and the power of nature to change things. The philosophical depth, beautiful writing, and celebration of the divine nature in both nature and the human soul are what make Emerson's essays and songs in this collection stand out. Emerson wants his readers to think about their own place in the big picture of life by looking at the beauty and meaning in the things around them. "May-Day and Other Pieces" shows Emerson's lasting influence on American literature and thought. It gives readers a glimpse into his transcendentalist vision and shows how he used writing to encourage people to think and find themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems & Translations (LOA #70)
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems & Translations (LOA #70)

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Library of America Ralph Waldo

Published: 1994-08

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13:

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Contains Emerson's published poetry, plus selections of his unpublished poetry from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's La vita nuova.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0674286316

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Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971–2013) was hailed as a major achievement of scholarship and textual editing. Drawing from the ten volumes of the Collected Works, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered some of Emerson’s most memorable prose published during his lifetime and under his direct supervision. The editors have enhanced those selections with additional writings to produce the only anthology that represents in a single volume the full range of Emerson’s written and spoken prose genres—sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays—that took on their public life in the pulpit or lecture hall, or on the printed page. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose demonstrates the remarkable scope of Emerson’s interests, from science, literature, art, philosophy, natural history, and religion to pressing social issues such as slavery and women’s rights, to the character of his contemporaries, including Lincoln and Thoreau. Emerson’s classic essays Nature, “Self-Reliance,” and “Experience” complement his less familiar but no less vital texts, including the deeply heterodox sermon on “The Lord’s Supper,” which effectively announced his resignation from the ministry, and late essays on “American Civilization,” “Character,” and “Works and Days.” Edited according to the most rigorous modern standards, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose provides an authoritative compendium of writings by one of America’s most significant literary figures and public intellectuals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Prentiss Clark

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-01-05

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1476647755

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In his 1837 speech "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "life is our dictionary," encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet, philosopher, lecturer, essayist and editor. There are nearly 100 entries on individual texts and their personal, historical and literary contexts. Emerson's work is placed within his relationships with family members, fellow Transcendentalists and transatlantic friends, and his commitment to ethics, self-culture and social change. This book provides the fullest possible exploration of Emerson's writing and philosophy. Far ahead of his own time, the man enthusiastically questioned institutions, communities, friendships, history, individuality and contemporaneous approaches to environmental stewardship.

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 2192

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Emerson collection: Introduction: Ralph Waldo Emerson Books: The Conduct of Life: Fate Power Wealth Culture Behavior Worship Considerations by the Way Beauty Illusions Essays-First Series: History Self-Reliance Compensation Spiritual Laws Love Friendship Prudence Heroism The Over-Soul Circles Intellect Art Essays-Second Series: The Poet Experience Character Manners Gifts Nature Politics Nominalist and Realist New England Reformers Nature: Commodity Beauty Language Discipline Idealism Spirit Prospects Representative Men: Plato Emanuel Swedenborg Michel de Montaigne William Shakespeare Napoleon Johann Wolfgang von Goethe English Traits Society and Solitude: Civilization Art Eloquence Domestic Life Farming Works and Days Books Clubs Courage Success Old Age Letters and Social Aims: Poetry and Imagination Social Aims Eloquence Resources The Comic Quotation and Originality Progress of Culture Persian Poetry Inspiration Greatness Immortality Poetry: Poems (1847) May-Day and Other Pieces: May-Day The Adirondacs Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces Nature and Life Elements Quatrains Translations Other Poems Addresses and Lectures: The American Scholar An Address in Divinity College Literary Ethics The Method of Nature Man the Reformer Lecture on The Times The Conservative The Transcendentalist The Young American Letter to President Van Buren The Man of Letters The Celebration of Intellect... Other Essays: The Lord's Supper Thoughts on Modern Literature Walter Savage Landor The Senses and the Soul Transcendentalism Prayers Fourierism and the Socialists Chardon Street and Bible Conventions Agriculture of Massachusetts Harvard University English Reformers Europe and European Books The Tragic Past and Present War Perpetual Forces Demonology The Preacher Milton Thoreau Michael Angelo Plutarch Ezra Ripley, D.D. Mary Moody Emerson Samuel Hoar Carlyle George L. Stearns Saadi American Civilization The Fortune of the Republic The Sovereignty of Ethics The Natural History of Intellect