Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letters and Social Aims
Published on 15. June 2010
670 pages
978-0-674-05378-6 (ISBN)
Description
Letters and Social Aims, published in 1875, contains essays originally published early in the 1840s as well as those that were the product of a collaborative effort among Emerson, his daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, his son Edward Waldo Emerson, and his literary executor James Eliot Cabot.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05378-6 (9780674053786)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | Joel Myerson
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and Social Aims Volume VIII
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02/2010
The Belknap Press
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Persons
Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature, State University of New York at Albany, is General Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Glen M. Johnson is Professor of English, The Catholic University of America. Joel Myerson, Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, is Textual Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Preface Contents Note on Numbering and Documentation Abbreviations Historical Introduction Statement of Editorial Principles Textual Introduction Chapter 1. Poetry and Imagination Chapter 2. Social Aims Chapter 3. Eloquence Chapter 4. Resources Chapter 5. The Comic Chapter 6. Quotation and Originality Chapter 7. Progress of Culture Chapter 8. Persian Poetry Chapter 9. Inspiration Chapter 10. Greatness Chapter 11. Immortality Notes Textual Apparatus Annex A: The Manuscripts Appendix to Annex A: Alterations in the Manuscripts Annex B: Parallel Passages Index
