{"product_id":"emerson-poems-edited-by-peter-washington-hardcover","title":"Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnown for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak to his most passionately held belief: that external authority should be disregarded in favor of one's own experience. From the embattled farmers who \"fired the shot heard round the world\" in the stirring \"Concord Hymn,\" to the flower in \"The Rhodora,\" whose existence demonstrates \"that if eyes were made for seeing, \/ Then Beauty is its own excuse for being,\" Emerson celebrates the existence of the sublime in the human and in nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining intensity of feeling with his famous idealism, Emerson's poems reveal a moving, more intimate side of the man revered as the Sage of Concord.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson (1803---1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 6.6 x 4.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 14, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335274774777,"sku":"9781400043163","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MUs0dG8zWnZTV2d3aTlKL3BPMW9Ydz09.webp?v=1769657758","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/emerson-poems-edited-by-peter-washington-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}