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Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • ISBN 9780674139800
  • Weight: 1361g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Mar 1980
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Some of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s finest and most famous essays, such as “Self-Reliance,” “Compensation,” and “The Over-Soul,” appeared in his Essays of 1841, published when he was thirty-seven years old. Preceded by the slim volume Nature, it was his first full-length book.

The present edition provides for the first time an authoritative text of the Essays, together with an introduction, notes, and supplementary material of great value for the study of Emerson’s creative processes. A list of hundreds of parallel passages in his earlier journals and lectures makes it possible to examine in detail how he drew upon those manuscripts (now published), especially the voluminous journals, as grist for the twelve essays. His subsequent alterations of the essays, particularly in the revised edition of 1847, give evidence of the evolution of his thought and style at this stage of his career. While the text incorporates his revisions, so as to represent his final intention, the earlier versions are given at the end of the book.

Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater
Text Established by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
The late professor Joseph Slater was General Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson until 1996. 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.

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