Representative Men E-book
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genre: History / Biography, Philosophy
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) - American poet, essayist, and promoter of
Transcendentalism who embodied the American faith in creative individualism.
Educated at Harvard, Emerson taught for a time, and was minister of the Old
North Church in Boston for three years before developing his own philosophy.
Representative Men (1850) - Biographical sketches of the lives of Plato,
Shakespeare, Goethe, Swedenborg, Napoleon, and Montaigne, illustrating
Emerson's belief that great men are representative of their times.
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