Shakespeare: The Poet

"How good and sound and inviolable his innocency, that is never to seek, and never wrong, but speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare Shakespeare, the Poet (1850) by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of seven essays Emerson included in his book, Representative Men (also available from Cosimo Classics). Like the other figures in this collection, Shakespeare embodied, for Emerson, the essence of the qualities that accomplished poets possess. These were qualities Emerson felt are critical to a spiritually strong world.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: 01/23/1905
Pages: 30
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.09lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.07d
ISBN: 9781646795437

About the Author
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: - RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) was an American poet and essayist. Universally known as the Sage of Concord, Emerson established himself as a leading spokesman of transcendentalism and as a major figure in American literature. His additional works include a series of lectures published as Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).