Letters and Social Aims (Emerson's Complete Works, Riverside Edition, Volume VIII [8])

314 pp. v, 333 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays by the 19th century Transcendentalist author and champion of individualism, with an introductory note by J.E. Cabot. CONTENTS: Poetry and Imagination; Social Aims; Eloquence; Resources; The Comic; Quotation and Originality; Progress of Culture; Persian Poetry; Inspiration; Greatness; Immortality.