Ralph Waldo Emerson

C&C Web Press brings you Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essay, "Self Reliance". Emerson is considered to be the father of the Transcendentalism literary movement. This book also contains, "Literary Ethics", "Man the Reformer", "The American Scholar", "The Conservative" & "The Transcendentalist. Excerpt: "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think, ' 'I am, ' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today".

Although Emerson's poetry reveals that he regarded life as a tragedy, he also had a belief in humanity, a pride in human life which gave America a brief revival of the nobility of spirit in which it was founded. On this CD, Archibald MacLeish, a distinguished poet himself, reads many of Emerson's best-known works.