May-day and other pieces. / By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Benton, Joel, 1832-1911 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

iv, 205 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1867.

Contents:

May-day.

The Adirondacs.

Occasional and miscellaneous pieces: Brahma. Nemesis. Fate. Freedom. Ode sung in the Town hall, Concord, July 4, 1857. Boston hymn. Voluntaries. Love and thought. Lover's petition. Una. Letters. Rubies. Merlin's song. The test. Solution.

Nature and life: Nature. The Romany girl. Days. The Chartist's complaint. My Garden. The titmouse. Sea-shore. Song of nature. Two rivers. Waldeinsamkeit. Terminus. The past. The last farewell. In memoriam.

Elements: Experience. Compensation. Politics. Heroism. Character. Culture. Friendship. Beauty. Manners. Art. Spiritual laws. Unity. Worship.

Quatrains

Translations.

Notes:

First edition.

"Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has newspaper article pasted to the front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of Joel Benton, May 1867.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has [1] loose leaf written in ms. about Joel Benton laid in.

OCLC:

1308369