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The Portable Emerson
By Ralph Waldo EmersonEdited by Carl Bode and Malcolm Cowley
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Published on Aug 27, 1981 | 720 Pages
Published on Aug 27, 1981 | 720 Pages
Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph 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 Essays and Nature.
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