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    <body><![CDATA[My version had essays on Nature, History and Self-Reliance. My impression was that Emerson was one smart guy. The essays are packed with wisdom in so many places across so many areas of thought. It's definitely not always easy to read. The writing is often frilly and complex. It's also threaded with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43409589">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The world is pliably linguistic. Have faith in the way you see it! Allow yourself to do what you do and feel what you feel. Be a healthy individualist. Respect your fellow woman and your shared source.<br/><br/>Hippies talk all the time about universal spirits and mother nature and blah blah blah....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34252407">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't resist Emerson.  I enjoyed <em>Nature</em> much less than &quot;Self Reliance&quot; but I still found myself admiring his prose.  For a writer who said &quot;I hate quotations,&quot; he sure supplies a plethora of pithy lines.  <br/><br/>My main problem with <em>Nature</em> was how anthropocentric it was.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13447192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;The mind of Emerson,&quot; literary critic Harold Bloom once wrote, &quot;is the mind of America.&quot; Indeed, Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays contain some of the most memorable and important expressions of American thought. Generations of readers have been stirred by Emerson's ideal of self-reliance, and his vision of nature as a manifestation of the divine spirit has profoundly influenced American naturalists and environmentalists from Thoreau's time to the present. Poets as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Allen Ginsberg were inspired by the transcendental flavor of Emerson's work. This volume brings together selections from Emerson's best-loved writings, particularly drawing upon his early work, which is some of his most poignant. Included are excerpts from <em>Nature</em>, the famous &quot;Divinity School Address,&quot; &quot;Self-Reliance,&quot; &quot;The Over-Soul,&quot; &quot;Compensation,&quot; &quot;Spiritual Laws,&quot; &quot;The Poet,&quot; and &quot;Circles.&quot; Several of his most moving poems appear here as well.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[     An odd collection of poetry and essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Great stuff in the essays, and highly recommended. Poetry not so much to my taste, but still good stuff. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great example of American Romantic literature, but Emerson's redundancy and hypocracy wasn't for me. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.   &quot;Certain writings should be read together, and these two make perfect partners. A beautiful new volume.&quot; -Walking]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice little portable edition of Thoreau and Emerson to feed your soul. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This fucker's a jumped-up graduation speaker at an overpriced private high school, and that's all there is to it. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;A soul-satisfying collection of 12 essays by the noted philosopher and poet who embraced independence, rejected conformity, and loved nature. In the title essay, Emerson writes about the extraordinary power of nature as a way of bringing the divine into our lives. Also includes &quot;Character,&quot; &quot;Intellect,&quot; &quot;Spiritual Laws,&quot; &quot;The American Scholar&quot; address, and others.  &lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall just ok, though the Nature essay does contain my new favorite quote: &quot;The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.&quot; Hah! And it's awesome in every sense of the word &quot;occult&quot;, which has a f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59380965">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I sort of feel that both Emerson and Thoreau are starting to sound a little overly dated, and not in a good way... more in the &quot;we're supporting the domination of nature and non-Europeans but are so focused on our own spiritual development that we don't realize it.&quot;<br/><br/>Nonetheless,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/558683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I may have enjoyed this more if I hadn't had to schlep through it in a very very unlively class. In Nature, Emerson lays down the basic philosophy of the transcendentalists. It is important to realize how much of an influence Emerson was on his contemporaries as we see reactions to his ideas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/931895">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The literature of manifest destiny]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nature is endlessly frustrating, but simultaneously endlessly valuable.  Emerson repeats himself incessantly and the text is more sermon than prose.  But, Nature (albeit initally anonymously self-published) was Emerson's first real publication and represents a time of revolution and transience in Am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5983719">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best essay/book ever written, at least in English. The prose style seems goofily impressionistic, but there's actually not a wasted word. &quot;Nature&quot; is a deeply moving prose-poem about human perception, the non-human world, and how the two interact.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Edited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff. <br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nature changed the way I looked at United States History.  Not only a must read for philosophy students (obviously) but for American History students who want to study how Intellectual history changed social history.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Who doesn't love Emerson? Raise your hand so that I can stop being your friend.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;The mind of Emerson,&quot; literary critic Harold Bloom once wrote, &quot;is the mind of America.&quot; Indeed, Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays contain some of the most memorable and important expressions of American thought. Generations of readers have been stirred by Emerson's ideal of self-reliance, and his vision of nature as a manifestation of the divine spirit has profoundly influenced American naturalists and environmentalists from Thoreau's time to the present. Poets as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Allen Ginsberg were inspired by the transcendental flavor of Emerson's work. This volume brings together selections from Emerson's best-loved writings, particularly drawing upon his early work, which is some of his most poignant. Included are excerpts from <em>Nature</em>, the famous &quot;Divinity School Address,&quot; &quot;Self-Reliance,&quot; &quot;The Over-Soul,&quot; &quot;Compensation,&quot; &quot;Spiritual Laws,&quot; &quot;The Poet,&quot; and &quot;Circles.&quot; Several of his most moving poems appear here as well.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Emerson.  It's been a pleasure exploring where he lived in New England.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Deducted a star for being all talk and no action.<br/>Thoreau did it right.]]></body>
    
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