Emerson's Representative Men
Compiled and Indexed by Richard Seltzer B&R Samizdat Express - March 19, 2005
ISBN: 0-917466-25-X
Genre: History, Literature
Reviewed by Rochelle Caviness - April 14, 2005
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a famed American writer, poet, lecturer, and philosopher who began his career as a Unitarian minister. Emerson was also a leading transcendentalist and advocate of transcendentalism. The main focus of this collection is Emerson's Representative Men, which consists of seven essays, of which six are biographical lectures on Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. Emerson held that these six men embodied the spirit and principles that were representative of the American Republic and all that it stood for. In this one-volume CD collection, Richard Seltzer has compiled more than two-hundred books by Emerson and the six men he focused on in his book, Representative Men.
The following is a brief sample of the various works that you will find in this collection. A complete index, along with ordering information can be found online at: http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat/rep.html.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Plato
Republic
Apology
Sophist
Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
Michel de Montaigne
10 Volume collection of Essays by Michel de Montaigne
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Plays, including Romeo and Juliet and Othello
Plays attributed, in part, to Shakespeare
Shakespeare in German translation
The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
Emanuel Swedenborg
Spiritual Life and the Word of God
Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, by William White
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
De Leiden des Jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther), in English and German
Hermann and Dorothea, in English and German
Italienische Reise, in German
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 8 Volumes, in German
Napoleon Bonaparte
The texts on Napoleon found in this collection, are also found on Seltzer's, Napoleon Bonaparte CD, which is part of his World Leaders' series.
Life of Napoleon I by John Holland Rose
Napoleon Bonaparte by John Abbott
Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud by Stewarton
After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W.E. Frye
The books found in the Emerson's Representative Men CD collection are essential reading, and many are titles that are found on high school and college reading lists. Emerson's philosophical ideals and his essays influenced numerous American writers, such as Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Margaret Fuller. He also encouraged American writers to strive to develop a uniquely American style of writing. Studying Emerson's writing, and those of his 'representative men' will broaden your understanding and appreciation of Western Literature and the impact that Emerson had on the American literary movement of his time.
This CD is designed for use with a Windows based PC. You will also need to have a web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Netscape) and/or a Windows based word-processing program such as Microsoft Word, or Corel's Word Perfect, in order to read the text. Once you open a book file, you can change the font size and format to suit your individual visual needs. As well, all the books in this collection are presented in plain text (ASCII) format. This format makes the texts easily accessible for visually impaired readers using most screen reading (text-to-speech) or computer magnification programs.
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