By (author) Ralph Waldo Emerson , Edited by Larzer Ziff
Format Paperback | 416 pages
Dimensions 134 x 198 x 19mm | 292g
Publication date 01 Jun 2003
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
ISBN10 014243762X
ISBN13 9780142437629
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内容简介
An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach," and in 1829 became pastor of the Scond Church (Unitarian) in Boston. That same year he married Ellen Louise Tucker, who was to die of t u b e rculosis only seventeen months later. In 1832 Emerson resigned his pastorate and traveled to Eurpe, where he met Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a new career as a public lecturer, and married Lydia Jackson a year later. A group that gathered around Emerson in Concord came to be known as "the Concord school," and included Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour; and these lectures were the source of most of his essays. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy, which views the world of phenomena as a sort of symbol of the inner life and emphasizes individual freedom and self-reliance. Emerson's address to the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard (1837) and another address to the graduating class of the Harvard Divinity School (1838) applied his doctrine to the scholar and the clergyman, provoking sharp controversy. An ardent abolitionist, Emerson lectured and wrote widely against slavery from the 1840's through the Civil War. His principal publications include two volumes ofEssays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870). He died of pneumonia in 1882 and was buried in Concord. Larzer Ziff is a research professor of English at Johns Hopkins University who has written extensively on American literary culture.
书籍目录
Introduction 7
Suggestions for Further Reading 29
A Note on the Text 31
Essays
Nature 1836 35
The American Scholar 1837 83
An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge 1838 107
Man the Reformer 1841 129
History (Essays, First Series) 1841 149
Self-Reliance (Essays, First Series) 1841 175
The Over-Soul (Essays, First Series) 1841 205
Circles (Essays, First Series) 1841 225
The Transcendentalist 1842 239
The Poet (Essays, Second Series) 1844 259
Experience (Essays, Second Series) 1844 285
Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic (Representative Men) 1850 313
Napoleon; Or, the Man of the World (Representative Men) 1850 337
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