| The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson Contributor(s): Myerson, Joel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231102828 ISBN-13: 9780231102827 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson presents Emerson at his most guarded and his most vulnerable, writing to other Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, to his wife and brothers, to friends like Longfellow and Whitman. With effusions of love, messages of condolence, letters of support for Thoreau and Whitman, and critiques of friends' writings, this extraordinary collection presents an Emerson deeply connected to the world around him. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97015060 |
| Physical Information: 1.47" H x 6.26" W x 9.25" (1.69 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public. Through these letters readers gained a new insight into the mind of this seminal figure in American literary and intellectual history. Now, for the first time, readers can find Emerson's best letters distilled in one volume. Distinguished Emerson scholar Joel Myerson has selected 350 letters written between 1813 and 1880 that best represents the scope of Emerson's correspondence. |