Days

By Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Book Id: WPLBN0002949382
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File Size: 8.36 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Days
Author:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Fantasy, Philosophy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Days
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Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Waldo Emerson, B. R. (n.d.). Days. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012. As a lecturer and orator, Emerson—nicknamed the Concord Sage—became the leading voice of intellectual culture in the United States. Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had a defect in the region of the heart and a self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name, though he later admitted Emerson was a great man. Theodore Parker, a minister and Transcendentalist, noted Emerson's ability to influence and inspire others: the brilliant genius of Emerson rose in the winter nights, and hung over Boston, drawing the eyes of ingenuous young people to look up to that great new start, a beauty and a mystery, which charmed for the moment, while it gave also perennial inspiration, as it led them forward along new paths, and towards new hopes. ( Summary from Wikipedia )

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fantasy, Philosophy, Myths/Legends, Poetry