The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ISBN 10: 0674267206 / ISBN 13: 9780674267206

Published by Harvard University Press Apr 1987, 1987

About this Item

Neuware - Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, ¿was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.¿ His celebrated essays are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Publisher: Harvard University Press Apr 1987
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674267206
• ISBN 13: 9780674267206
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 158H x 25D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 158 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 499 grams

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Synopsis

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, “was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.” His celebrated essays―the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)―are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

The text is reproduced from the second and third volumes of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a critical edition which draws on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last half century. Alfred R. Ferguson was founding editor of the edition, followed by Joseph Slater (until 1996).

About the Authors

Alfred R. Ferguson (1915–1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Jean Ferguson Carr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she writes and teaches in composition, women’s studies, history of the book, literacy, and literary studies, focusing on nineteenth-century American constructions of literacy and letters.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author and editor of many books, including A Writer’s America: Landscape in American Literature.