Representative Men

by Ralph Waldo EMERSON (1803 - 1882)

07: V: Shakspeare, Or, The Poet

Representative Men

A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. The six representatives are Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napolean and Goethe. (Introduction by S. Kovalchik)


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