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The poet- essayist and thinker, February 7, 2005
This review is from: Emerson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)
Emerson's poetry is not the major form of his work. His most well- known work are his Essays. And his poems share a certain quality with these essays as they are rich in ideas and moral probings. Emerson's most well- known poem is one which every American schoolchild once leared. It is the poem of the beginning of the Revolutionary War. " Here is where the embattled farmers stood , and fired the shot heard round the world.' Emerson musings can be deep and also reflect his Transcendental philosopher, " If the slayer thinks he's slain" .One line of his diaries sticks in my mind as a particularly great line of poetry. This is when he ' walks across Boston Common glad to the brink of fear'.
There is a tremendous richness in this work and much to be deciphered and enjoyed by the probing reader.
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