Representative Men is an 1850 book of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson that examines the role of "great men." The work is structured around an essay on great men in general and six individual essays dedicated to figures like Plato, Shakespeare, and Napoleon.
Representative Men is a collection of seven essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1850, that explores the concept of "great men" in society. It features essays on Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe.
| Front | Representative Men |
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| Back | 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 extol 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") |
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