Representative Men (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- First Published: 1850
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Mysticism, Heroes or heroism, Heads of state, Transcendentalism
Critical Evaluation:
Emerson’s Representative Men: Seven Lectures was first presented as a course of lectures in Boston in the winter of 1845-1846 and later during his visit to England in 1847. The volume opens with a discussion of the uses of great men and follows with six chapters on men who represent humanity in six aspects: Plato as philosopher, Emanuel Swedenborg as mystic, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne as skeptic, William Shakespeare as poet, Napoleon Bonaparte as man of the world, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as writer.
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