Cosimo Classics Compensation and self-reliance, hardcover/ralph waldo emerson

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Probably no writer has so profoundly influenced American philosophy and literature, as did Emerson.

Known as The Father of Transcendentalism, he was the focal point of a small group of intellectuals reacting against the orthodoxy of the established religions of his era.

As an active lecturer in the early 1830s, he delivered a number of landmark lectures, most notably among them - Compensation and Self-Reliance, in which Emerson fervently declares man's inherent divinity.

By positing that the way to realization lay solely within, man can be fulfilled only through one's own self-induced and self-devised efforts.

Marked by a deep compassion and insight, Compensation and Self-Reliance rings like a clarion-call - one Emerson intoned steadily throughout his life.

Though his last years were marked by a decline in his mental powers, his reputation as one of the outstanding figures of American letters was all but assured by the time of his death.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) was an American poet and essayist.

Universally known as the Sage of Concord, Emerson established himself as a leading spokesman of transcendentalism and as a major figure in American literature.

His additional works include a series of lectures published as Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).