Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His TimeArgues Emerson's representatives both as an American writer of his time and as a comprehensive human spirit. Emerson appears here in all his vital contradictions. |
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Hagiography | 3 |
Henry Jamess Fine Adumbration | 10 |
Ultimate Puritanism | 16 |
Copyright | |
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