The annotated Emerson / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited by David Mikics ; with a foreword by Phillip Lopate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Contributor:

Mikics, David, 1961-

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xxv, 541 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This expansive volume on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson provides readers with a detailed examination of important selected works by one of America's most influential poets and thinkers. The book covers complete works such as Nature, The American Scholar, and John Brown, as well as key portions of larger texts such as Essays, First Series, Representative Men, and The Conduct of Life. Each selection is accompanied by detailed margin annotation, and color illustrations are provided throughout. The volume includes a foreword by poet and critic Phillip Lopate, as well as a chronology of Emerson's life and a contextual introduction. Mikics is a professor of English at the University of Houston. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Foreword : the undisguised Emerson

Chronology

Abbreviations

Introduction

Nature (1836)

The American scholar (1837)

Letter to Martin van Buren, President of the United States, Concord, Mass., April 23, 1838

Divinity school address (1838)

Literary ethics (1838)

From Essays, First series (1841): History; Self-reliance; Circles

From Essays, Second series (1844): The poet; Experience; Politics; Nominalist and realist; New England reformers

An address .o.o. on .o.o. the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies (1844)

From Representative men (1850): Montaigne, or, The skeptic; Shakespeare, or, The poet

From English traits (1856): First visit to England; Stonehenge; John Brown (1860)

From The conduct of life (1860): Fate; Power; Illusions

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)

Thoreau (1862)

From Poems (1845): The sphinx; Uriel; The rhodora : on being asked, whence is the flower?; The snow-storm; Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing; Merlin (I); Merlin (II); Bacchus; Concord hymn, sung at the completion of the battle monument, July 4, 1837

From May-day and other pieces (1867): Hafiz; The exile (from the Persian of Kermani); From Hafiz; [They say, through patience, chalk]; Song of Seid Nimetollah of Kuhistan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0674049233

9780674049239

OCLC:

709670312

Publisher Number:

99947524204