Download or read book Representative Men: Seven Lectures written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850. The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extoll the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great: Plato ("the Philosopher") Emanuel Swedenborg ("the Mystic") Michel de Montaigne ("the Skeptic") William Shakespeare ("the Poet") Napoleon ("the Man of the World") Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("the Writer")