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A review by brockf15
Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.0
Though he would refute imitation, Emerson often sounds Socratic in his writing about philosophy, though that comparison only stands in tone not content. What you have here is a collection of “translations” of what you already know down inside about your own potential for originality, but adding to the deep history and wellspring of texts for creatives to pull on Emerson articulates it in a way that is definitely his own.
Foundational as an approach to naturalism and ever inspiring, a few of my favorite essays were: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Heroism, Intellect, The Poet, Manners, and Politics.
Some of his essays on love and reformers I found cute but not entirely as universal and applicable as I would have expected. The naturalist approach to all art might be challenged today as very cooperate and commercial products have made the high-art/low-art distinction more drastic, but we’ll never know Ralph’s opinion on that.
Foundational as an approach to naturalism and ever inspiring, a few of my favorite essays were: History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Heroism, Intellect, The Poet, Manners, and Politics.
Some of his essays on love and reformers I found cute but not entirely as universal and applicable as I would have expected. The naturalist approach to all art might be challenged today as very cooperate and commercial products have made the high-art/low-art distinction more drastic, but we’ll never know Ralph’s opinion on that.