The Illustrated Emerson - Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics (Introduction by)

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation's first recognized public intellectuals, he championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined on everything from the evils of slav...