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The Poet

The Poet

Paperback

PhilosophyLetters & EssaysGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1646795032
ISBN13: 9781646795031
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Oct 1 1844
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

. . . for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common-wealth.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet

The Poet, written by Ralph Waldon Emerson between 1841 and 1843, is an essay in which Emerson argues for the United States, when it was a relatively young nation, to establish a position of national poet to write about the country's virtues and vices. It reflects the way that Emerson, as a leader of the American Transcendentalist movement, championed individualism.

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