Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:<br><br>Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.<br><br>Long through thy weary crowds I roam;<br><br>A river-ark on the ocean brine,<br><br>Long I've been tossed like the driven foam:<br><br>But now, proud world! I'm going home.<br><br>Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;<br><br>To Grandeur with his wise grimace;<br><br>To upstart Wealth's averted eye;<br><br>To supple Office, low and high;<br><br>To crowded halls, to court and street;<br><br>To frozen hearts and hasting feet;<br><br>To those who go, and those who come;<br><br>Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home.<br><br>I am going to my own hearth-stone,<br><br>Bosomed in yon green hills alone,—<br><br>secret nook in a pleasant land,<br><br>Whose groves the frolic fairies planned;<br><br>Where arches green, the livelong day,<br><br>Echo the blackbird's roundelay,<br><br>And vulgar feet have never trod<br><br>A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anthology «Self-Reliance and Other Essays.» In «Self-Reliance,» Emerson explained that standing on one's own two feet against society was essential to forming a strong union with God. Once this essay was published, it received both wild praise and hurtful backlash from different factions of America. However, Emerson pushed through the negative criticism, stood against the crowd, and found himself stronger in his faith than he ever had before. Emerson found that self-reliance, no matter the situation, would always help the individual persevere and become stronger. Because Emerson wrote for the common man, many of his essays and poems are relatively simple and straight-forward; he wanted audiences to understand his thoughts and identify with his beliefs. He also wanted to wake them up from the conventional modern life that he believed had often placated them. Emerson's writings were meant to help the reader transcend to a more thoughtful mindset. His essays discuss themes of philosophy, poetry, history, politics, ethics, and literary criticism, all of which helped break people from what he believed were their mediocre lives. He saw that humanity could become stronger as a whole if people would take the steps to make themselves and their minds stronger. The texts in «Self-Reliance and Other Essays» will not only inspire readers, but they will inspire self-examination and evaluation as well.
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (with an Introduction by Stuart P. Sherman)
During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his writings is presented here in this volume of the “Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.” In the first essay, “Nature,” Emerson publicly acknowledges the transcendental lifestyle. He describes how that which is man-made detracts from the beauty of the real world. Through nature, Emerson believed people could find spirituality and wholeness. Emerson also explored the American political spectrum in his essay “Politics.” The author believed that, through individual growth and wisdom, it would be possible for Americans to abolish government and rule autonomously. Until that point, though, the State needed to protect the individuals’ rights. Readers can explore Emerson’s philosophy and poetry in this collection which includes twenty-four of his most important essays and fifteen of his poems. This edition includes an introduction by Stuart P. Sherman and a biographical afterword.
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of philosophies that attempt to explain the world and man’s purpose within it. Heavily vested in the philosophy of transcendentalism, though not one to label himself a true follower of the movement, Emerson believed that spirituality and wholeness were central to the ways in which humans could place themselves within nature. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of integral works that paved the way for much influential literature to come, including, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Fuller. With an eye-catching new cover and an informative note about the author, this edition of Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is both modern and readable.
