Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Transcendentalism and Its Times
- 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Family
- 3 The Radical Emerson?
- 4 Emerson as Lecturer
- 5 Emerson and Nature
- 6 Essays: First Series (1941)
- 7 Transcendental Friendship
- 8 Tears for Emerson
- 9 The Remembering Wine
- 10 Post-Colonial Emerson and the Erasure of Europe
- 11 ''Metre-Making'' Arguments
- 12 The Conduct of Life
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
4 - Emerson as Lecturer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Transcendentalism and Its Times
- 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Family
- 3 The Radical Emerson?
- 4 Emerson as Lecturer
- 5 Emerson and Nature
- 6 Essays: First Series (1941)
- 7 Transcendental Friendship
- 8 Tears for Emerson
- 9 The Remembering Wine
- 10 Post-Colonial Emerson and the Erasure of Europe
- 11 ''Metre-Making'' Arguments
- 12 The Conduct of Life
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 1833, Waldo Emerson (as he still called himself) gave a talk at the Unitarian chapel in Edinburgh, Scotland. At least one member of the audience remembered it ecstatically: 'The originality of his thoughts, the consummate beauty of the language in which they were clothed, the calm dignity of his bearing, the absence of all oratorical effect, and the singular directness and simplicity of his manner . . . made a deep impression on me. . . . His voice was the sweetest, the most winning and penetrating of any I ever heard.' The enthusiastic auditor might have added that the go-year-old visiting American speaker did not receive any sort of fee.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson , pp. 76 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999