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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 »)
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