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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")

See also※

• On Heroes, "Hero-Worship," & the Heroic in History – a similar series of lectures given by Thomas Carlyle, Emerson's Scottish contemporary
• Parallel Lives – classic work by Ancient Greek biographer Plutarch, outlining the "lives of elite individuals." And the virtues they represented.

External links※

• Representative Men public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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