by Edna Henry Lee Turpin (Introduction by), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)
American essayist, lecturer, and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. A champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, Emerson published numerous essays and delivered more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
