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Nietzsche never traveled anywhere without his volume of Emerson's essays; Matthew Arnold described Emerson as "the greatest prose writer this century." Considered in his own time a profoundly radical thinker, later reviewed as a bland Boston Brahmin, Emerson is a...(more) seminal American writers, a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker. This volume contains his Essays, First Series (1841), Second Series (1844), and a selection of poems including "The Problem," "The Snow-Storm," and "Concord Hymn."(less)