Review of 'The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson' on 'GoodReads'
2 stars
This is what it sounds like when your arguments are all pathos and no logos.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First Series (2003, IndyPublish.com)
Paperback, 164 pages
English language
Published April 15, 2003 by IndyPublish.com.
Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.
This is what it sounds like when your arguments are all pathos and no logos.