The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Belknap Press)

by Alfred Kazin (Introduction), Alfred Kazin (Introduction), Alfred R. Ferguson (Author), Jean Ferguson Carr (Author), R W Emerson (Author)

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1987
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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.

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 378
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Published: 01 Jul 1987
ISBN 10: 0674267206
ISBN 13: 9780674267206

Media Reviews

A critical and unmodernized text as close to Emerson's original intent as modern bibliographic research can come. Library Journal

Author Bio

Alfred R. Ferguson was, until his death, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Alfred Kazin is Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including, most recently, A Writer's America: Landscape in American Literature.