Society and Solitude (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- First Published: 1870
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Nature, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, New England, Human race, Farms, farmers, or farming, Human behavior, Loneliness, Sociology, Transcendentalism
Critical Evaluation:
Society and Solitude is a group of twelve essays previously delivered as lectures on various occasions and before varied audiences. Each essay is preceded by a few lines of original verse. The volume as a whole lacks the propagandistic fire of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s earlier essays, although there is still a tendency to dwell upon humanity’s better side, almost as though it had no other. Emerson continues also to see the world as filled with good for those who will receive what is offered. One of Emerson’s biographers has called these late...
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