Where do I start with this guy? Do I need any background for reading him?

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Anonymous Mon Nov 27 02:09:32 2017 No.10320500 [Reply] [Original]

Where do I start with this guy? Do I need any background for reading him?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 02:11:01 2017 No.10320503 Like any good writer he references the Greeks a lot. An understanding of history is all you need for him

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 02:45:41 2017 No.10320627 File: 266 KB, 600x600, 1457171113508-2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10320500 Nature, of course. Emerson knew what was up as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 02:52:15 2017 No.10320647 Essays First Series, Essays Second Series, Conduct of Life

Anonymous Mon Nov 27 09:30:30 2017 No.10321704

>>10320500
Maybe read Carlyle's On Heroes either before or after his Representative Men. Also Montaigne is a good contrast, either before or after the essays, etc. Goddard's small book on Transcendentalism is a great short introduction to his time period FWIW, but the anon who counsels 'know your history' gives the needed advice.

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