Emerson: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - Hardcover

A collection of poetry by the renowned nineteenth-century American Transcendalist philosopher and essayist celebrates the preeminence of the individual and personal experience in such famed works as "Concord Hymn" and "The Rhodora."

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.