Poems

Ralp Waldo Emerson provides great fuel for intellectual stimulation. Personally, I often struggle with poetry and prefer poetry that is fairly straight forward. However, I continually try to push my limits in order to exercise and hopefully strengthen my intellect. But I need to strike a balance in that effort. If poetry is too opaque and abstruse, I gain very little in the effort of reading it. Mr. Emeraon strikes that balance for me. I can enjoy working through his poetry, but I do need to work at it.I am like other people, in that I enjoy holding an actual book in my hands. However, the fact that I am able to download his work on to my IPad for free represents an unbeatable value. I feel as though I have a free lending library at my fingertips. Thank You!...

We purchased this book, and "Moon Lore", and several other books of poems/poetry. For me, it has surely been a worthwhile investment! Many times when I've been in tense situations, remembering the words and concepts,of some of my favorite poems has helped keep me more calm and situationally aware. As some of histories more famous leaders have been poets or quoted poetry, I feel that at least a blushing acquaintance with it is good for you. Give it a try!

I enjoy reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry but gave this book a 3-star rating based on the arrangement of the poems; e.g., the very first poem is entitled, Good-Bye, in which he summarizes his past life and preparation for death. It's a good poem but would be more effective as the last poem to be read, not the first. Also, I would have appreciated a Table of Contents with the names of each poem along with the year they were written.

Very good!

Great book, wonderful classic, formatted well for the Kindle. No misspellings or punctuation errors, and highly enjoyable read. The read aloud function works great!

It's Emerson...need I say more?

Love it....Love it! I have been trying to find the book, but I guess an electronic copy works better since I will forever own it on my kindle!

Good product.