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Address Delivered Before Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Sept. 6, 1849

Author: William Theodore Dwight
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Languages : en
Pages : 23

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Address Delivered Before Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Sept. 6, 1849

Author: William Theodore Dwight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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The Phi Beta Kappa Key

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Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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A Bibliography of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

Author: Clark Sutherland Northup
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Languages : en
Pages : 350

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A Bibliography of the State of Maine from the Earliest Period to 1891

Author: Joseph Williamson
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College

Author: Franklin Bowditch Dexter
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College with Annals of the College History: September 1805-September 1815

Author: Franklin Bowditch Dexter
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Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Understanding Emerson

Author: Kenneth S. Sacks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691223688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different Emerson. In Understanding Emerson, Kenneth Sacks draws on a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it previously unexamined, to reveal a young intellectual struggling to define himself and his principles. Caught up in the fierce dispute between his Transcendentalist colleagues and Harvard, the secular bastion of Boston Unitarianism and the very institution he was invited to honor with the annual Phi Beta Kappa address, Emerson agonized over compromising his sense of self-reliance while simultaneously desiring to meet the expectations of his friends. Putting aside self-doubts and a resistance to controversy, in the end he produced an oration of extraordinary power and authentic vision that propelled him to greater awareness of social justice, set the standard for the role of the intellectual in America, and continues to point the way toward educational reform. In placing this singular event within its social and philosophical context, Sacks opens a window into America's nineteenth-century intellectual landscape as well as documenting the evolution of Emerson's idealism. Engagingly written, this book, which includes the complete text of "The American Scholar," allows us to appreciate fully Emerson's brilliant rebuke of the academy and his insistence that the most important truths derive not from books and observation but from intuition within each of us. Rising defiantly before friend and foe, Emerson triumphed over his hesitations, redirecting American thought and pedagogy and creating a personal tale of quiet heroism.