What is the author's style in Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

In his poetry, Emerson reveals the softer heart of an artist rather than the decisive intellect of a philosopher. There is a melancholy strain in his poems that does not emerge from the essays. In Goodbye, for example, a spirit wounded by the world looks forward to a reunion with nature and the infinite as he says farewell to "crowded halls, to court and street; to frozen hearts and hasting feet." The natural world of New England is very much evident in his Frost-like poetry, such as The Snow Storm, where the world becomes quiet in a white blanket: "The sled and traveler stopped, the courier's feet/Delayed, all friends shut out/The housemates sit around the radiant fireplace, enclosed/In a tumultuous privacy of storm."