Erica's review
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Larzer Ziff
Erica's review
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Larzer Ziff
Erica's review
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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 American Literature.
