Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Representative Men and the Conduct of Life (Ivory Classics)
- ISBN-10
- 1974341607
- ISBN-13
- 9781974341603
- Series
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-12
- Author
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Description
Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson lays out and attempts to solve an abstract problem: that humans do not fully accept nature's beauty. He writes that people are distracted by the demands of the world, whereas nature gives but humans fail to reciprocate. The essay consists of eight sections: Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit and Prospects. Each section takes a different perspective on the relationship between humans and nature.Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extoll the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great.The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876. In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer "the question of the times:" "How shall I live?" It is composed of nine essays, each preceded by a poem. These nine essays are largely based on lectures Emerson held throughout the country, including for a young, mercantile audience in the lyceums of the Midwestern boomtowns of the 1850s.
