Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First and Second Series Introduced by Douglas Crase ISBN: 978-1-59853-084-1 432 pp. / $12.95 Printed on high-quality acid-free paper SAVE 20% and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the U.S. when you order from the LOA Web Store! Web Store Price: $10.36

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“Emerson’s prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language,” writes Harold Bloom. Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s classic essays, including the exhortation to “Self-Reliance,” the embattled realizations of “Circles” and “Experience,” and the groundbreaking achievement of “Nature.” Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he calls “the great and crescive self,” he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Also gathered here are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, friendship, love, and much more.

Douglas Crase is a poet, essayist and critic, whose poetry collection The Revisionist was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award.