The portable Emerson / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited with an introduction by Jeffrey S. Cramer.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, author.

Contributor:

• Cramer, Jeffrey S., 1955- editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

• Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

• Works. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 715 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

Summary:

"A comprehensive collection of writings by "the most influential writer of the nineteenth century" (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson's diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emerson's admirers and proteges, while his central text, Nature, singlehandedly engendered an entire spiritual and intellectual movement in transcendentalism. This long-awaited update-the first in more than thirty years-presents the core of Emerson's writings, including Nature and The American Scholar, along with revelatory journal entries, letters, poetry, and a sermon"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

• "The Portable Emerson edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley published by The Viking Press 1946 ; this new compilation published in Penguin Books 2014"
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9780143107460
• 0143107461

OCLC:

884961436