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Shakespeare; Or, the Poet
Shakespeare; Or, the Poet
Shakespeare; Or, the Poet
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Shakespeare; Or, the Poet

Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by Phil Paonessa

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In The Poet, an essay by U.S. writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. It is not about men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet. After reading the essay, Walt Whitman consciously set out to answer Emerson's call. When the 1855 edition of Leaves Of Grass was first published, Whitman sent a copy to Emerson, whose letter in response helped launch the book to success. In that letter Emerson called the collection the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 8, 2017
ISBN9781666602142
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an essayist, poet, and philosopher. The founder of the Transcendentalist movement that dominated American letters during the mid-nineteenth century, he mentored Thoreau and Whitman, and defined the shape of American literature for a generation.

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