Representative Men

Blurb

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
Emanuel Swedenborg
Michel de Montaigne
William Shakespeare
Napoleon
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe