{"product_id":"2940014830058","title":"Emerson's Essays: 1st and 2nd Series","description":"This version of Emerson's Essays is an historic 1909 edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first series is full of classic essays, including HISTORY, SELF-RELIANCE, COMPENSATION, SPIRITUAL LAWS, LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, PRUDENCE, HEROISM, THE OVER-SOUL, CIRCLES, INTELLECT, and ART \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second series of essays, which complete this volume, was published in 1844, three years after the first. Already then there were signs that, the men of insight apart, the outer world was beginning to take heed of the new essayist. This series includes The Poet, which expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices, Experience, which speaks out against the effort to overintellectualize life-and particularly against experiments to create utopias, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, which shows Emerson's belief that civilization is only beginning and can reach unfathomable places through moral force and creative intelligence, Nominalist and Realist, and the lecture New England Reformers given at Armory Hall, in which Emerson states, \"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reader should remember that the essays were in the first instance intended to be spoken aloud in public, and not to be mere written and printed utterances. Composed like the sentences of the old peripatetic philosophers, Emerson s prose affords perhaps the nearest approach to their method in our modern literary order.","brand":"Balefire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074077475056,"sku":"2940014830058","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014830058_p0.jpg?v=1763616218","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014830058","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}