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This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature , in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits , complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.
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The Portable Emerson - New Edition - Edited by Carl Bode in Collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Bode, Malcolm Cowley
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- Released
- 1981
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The Portable Emerson - New Edition - Edited by Carl Bode in Collaboration with Malcolm Cowley
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Bode, Malcolm Cowley
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 670
- ISBN10
- 0140150943
- ISBN13
- 9780140150940
- Series
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
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- This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature , in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits , complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.