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Ralph Waldo Emerson transformed America by writing in an utterly unique, personal, and insistently optimistic voice about matters that concern us to this day: our lives alone and with others, the true sources of identity, and the specifically American promise of freedom and equality for all. A principal voice of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embodies an independent American intellectual tradition rooted in deep moral convictions and the pragmatic ability to adapt to changing circumstances. This volume contains Emerson's most consequential essays, selected by NYU University Professor Ulrich Baer, including ""Self-Reliance,"" ""Politics,"" ""Experience,"" and ""Friendship,"" as well as writings about political issues. The introduction by Harold Bloom explains Emerson's unrivaled status as America's foremost philosopher. This beautifully curated Warbler Press edition includes an illuminating biographical timeline of Emerson's life and work.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a prolific essayist, public philosopher, poet, and political commentator who became world famous in his lifetime and influenced authors as diverse as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. E. B. DuBois, and others. Harold Bloom (1930-2019) was an American literary critic and Professor at Yale University. He taught consecutively for sixty-four years and wrote more than fifty books, including The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry; The Western Canon; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime; and The Book of J. Ulrich Baer holds degrees from Harvard and Yale and teaches as University Professor at NYU. A recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships, he is the author of Remnants of Song: On Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan; The Rilke Alphabet; Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma; translations of Nietzsche, Freud, and Rilke; and new introductions to numerous classic books.

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