Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Penguin (5 December 2003) Amazon If you enjoy reading the essays of Seneca and Montaigne, then Ralph Waldo Emerson works nicely as a next step. He complements them while setting his works apart in a uniquely American way. I am referring to an emphasis on drive and … Continue reading Nature and Selected Essays
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On Grief and Reason
On Grief and Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. (10 April 1997) Amazon A posthumously published collection of Joseph Brodsky's essays, On Grief and Reason is a series of meditations on literature as a moral and civilising force. For Brodsky, poetry is something that sharpens perception, preserves individual freedom, and is … Continue reading On Grief and Reason
