Synopses & Reviews
This new printing adds Orestes A. Brownsons 1836 review of Nature and three essays representing Emerson scholarship of the 1970s: Merton M. Sealts, Jr., on The Composition of Nature”; Barry Woods PMLA article of 1976 on Coleridgean elements in Nature; and Barbara Packer on Emersons Cosmogony in Prospects.” The essays by Professors Sealts and Packer appear for the first time in this volume.
Review
This scholarly work is a study of the origins of Ralph Waldo Emersons first book, here reprinted in full, then traced to its inception in Emersons lectures and journals, and thereafter seen as its critics saw itnot only his contemporaries, but critics of the later 19th century and those of the past three decades.”Capital Times (Madison, Wis.)
Synopsis
This new printing adds Orestes A. Brownson’s 1836 review of
Nature and three essays representing Emerson scholarship of the 1970s: Merton M. Sealts, Jr., on “The Composition of
Nature”;
Barry Wood’s
PMLA article of 1976 on Coleridgean elements in
Nature;
and Barbara Packer on “Emerson’s Cosmogony in ‘Prospects.’” The essays by Professors Sealts and Packer appear for the first time in this volume.