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Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume III: Essays: Second Series
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Hardback. Num Pages: 372 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 699.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674139909
SKU
V9780674139909
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About Ralph Waldo Emerson
The late professor Joseph Slater was General Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson until 1996. Alfred R. Ferguson (1915–1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Jean Ferguson Carr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she writes and teaches in composition, women’s studies, history of the book, literacy, and ... Read more
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