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: The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1934, Now newly imprinted for the Limited Editions Club by J.H. Nash, San Francisco)
262 pages
English language
Published Sept. 15, 1934 by Now newly imprinted for the Limited Editions Club by J.H. Nash, San Francisco.
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.