The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 023110281X ISBN 13: 9780231102810

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Distinguished Emerson scholar Joel Myerson has selected 350 letters written between 1813 and 1880 that best represents the scope of Emerson's correspondence.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 023110281X
• ISBN 13: 9780231102810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Myerson Joel