Synopses & Reviews
From one of the greatest figures of 19th-century America...
This new edition offers a broad view of the author's finest work, featuring his critical essays, poems, and letters, plus a considerable amount of material from the Journals, including an entry discovered in 1964 in the Library of Congress.
Synopsis
Offering a broad view of the author's finest work, this collection features critical essays, poems, and letters, plus material from journals. Includes a new Introduction. Original.
Table of Contents
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Introduction
An Emerson Chronology
Textual Note
I. Journals and Letters
II. Essays and Addresses
Nature
The American Scholar
Divinity School Address
Self-reliance
The Over-soul
Circles
The Poet
Experience
Politics
Montaigne; or, the Sceptic
Fate
Illusions
Thoreau
Education
III. Poems
Grace
The Rhodora
Each and All
The Snow-storm
The Humble-bee
Concord Hymn
The Problem
The Sphinx
Give All to Love
Uriel
Threnody
Merlin
Hamatreya
Ode to W. H. Channing
Bacchus
Days
Brahma
Two Rivers
Waldeinsamkeit
Boston Hymn
Terminus