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Representative Men (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Name: Representative Men (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781411435797

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Overview

This collection of essays, published in 1850, features Emerson's thoughts and reflections on such eminent men of history as Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Goethe, and includes the essay "Uses of Great Men."

About the Author, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. Along with such figures as Henry Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, he was an originator and, through the magazine The Dial, popularizer of the Transcendentalist movement. In essays like "Self-Reliance," he championed a distinctly American brand of individualism.