Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anthology Self-Reliance and Other Essays. In ''Self-Reliance'', Emerson explained that standing on one''s own two feet against society was essential to forming a strong union with God. Once this essay was published, it received both wild praise and hurtful ...