Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1841-1877 (Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition) - Hardcover

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598530682 ISBN 13: 9781598530681

Publisher: Library of America, 2010

Synopsis

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

About this title

About the Author:

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His principal publications include Nature (1836), two volumes of Essays (1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Representative Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).

Lawrence Rosenwald, editor, is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of American Literature at Wellesley College and the author of Emerson and the Art of the Diary.

Review:

“For several months I have been camping out in the mind of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a companionable, familiar, and yet endlessly stimulating place, and, since his mind his stronger than mine, I keep referring to his wisdom, even his doubts, and quite shamelessly identifying with him. All this started when I came across in a local bookstore the new, two-volume edition of his Selected Journals, published by The Library of America, and I decided to give it a whirl. Some 1,900 pages later, I am in thrall to, in love with, Mr. Emerson.” —Phillip Lopate, Harper’s Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1598530682
• ISBN 13: 9781598530681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 992
• Editor: Rosenwald Lawrence