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Nature

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

First written 1836

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Emerson’s first book and the founding statement of American Transcendentalism: nature as commodity, beauty, language and discipline, then as the expression of spirit, which the soul meets directly in solitude.

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Title
Nature
Publisher
James Munroe and Company, Boston
Year
1849
Edition
New edition

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