# Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15)

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- Authors: [Ralph Emerson](https://www.bookquiver.com/ralph-emerson)
- Publisher: library_of_america
- ISBN: 978-09-4045-015-8
- Pages: 1150
- Published: 1983-11-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive...