The Art Of Successful living
The Art Of Successful Living is a compilation of three of his most well-known essays – Love, Friendship and Self- Reliance. In these essays, he challenges and investigates the age-old traditions and insists on the interpenetration of the ideal and the real, of the spiritual and the material. Emerson's other literary works include Nature (1836), Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), Poems (1846) and May-Day (1867). About The Author Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the leading figures in the thought and literature of our civilisation. He was an essayist, critic, poet, orator and popular philosopher. As a writer, he was always concerned about his audience and his peers. Emerson's essays are a series of loosely related impressions, maxims, proverbs and parables.
