Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays: Second Series Volume III Hardback
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Joseph Slater, Alfred R. Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr
Part of the Ralph Waldo Emerson series
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one.
It includes eight essays—“The Poet,” “Experience,” “Character,” “Manners,” “Gifts,” “Nature,” “Politics,” and “Nominalist and Realist”—and one address, the much misunderstood “New England Reformers.” Essays: Second Series has a lightness of tone and an irony absent from the earlier writings, but it is no less memorable: “a sermon to me,” Carlyle wrote, “a real word.”The present edition, drawing on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last forty years, incorporates all the textual changes Emerson made or demonstrably intended to make after 1844.
It records variant wordings and recounts the development of the text before and after publication.
A list of parallel passages makes it possible to trace Emerson’s extensive use of material from his journals, notebooks, and lectures.
Endnotes provide information about people, events, and now-obscure terms.
A brief historical introduction places the book in the context of the years during which it was written, the time of Brook Farm, The Dial, and the death of Emerson’s five year-old son. Historical Introduction and Notes by Joseph SlaterText Established by Alfred R.
Ferguson and Jean Ferguson CarrTextual Introduction and Apparatus by Jean Ferguson Carr
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:372 pages, 4 halftones
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:11/01/1984
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- ISBN:9780674139909
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:372 pages, 4 halftones
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:11/01/1984
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674139909