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David M. Robinson

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Emerson and the Examined Life

Robert Pinsky, award-winning author and poet, Richard Geldard and David M. Robinson, Emerson scholars, celebrate the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a live reading from famous American essays including Self-Reliance, The Oversoul and The American Scholar.

Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Author: David M. Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2009)

Binding: Paperback, 248 pages

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