EMERSON'S PR/POET NCE PA

, by Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Morris, Saundra; Porte, Joel

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ISBN: 9780393967920 | 0393967921
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Copyright: 3/21/2001

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This new volume is the most comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings available in a paperback edition. The selections include Emerson's major sermons, lectures, essays, addresses, and poems, as well as excerpts from his journals, notebooks, and correspondence. "Contexts" addresses the topics of American Transcendentalism, philosophy, and Emerson's contemporary reception. "Criticism" includes thirteen twentieth-century essays by O. W. Firkins, Stephen E. Whicher, Perry Miller, Joel Porte, Hyatt H. Waggoner, Julie Ellison, Michael T. Gilmore, Barbara Packer, Stanley Cavell, Cornel West, Len Gougeon, Richard Poirier, and Saundra Morris. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are included.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiii

A Note on the Texts

xiv

Abbreviations

xvi

The Texts of Emerson's Prose and Poetry

Sermons

[Pray Without Ceasing], 1 Thessalonians 5:17, July 25, 1826

(6)

[Summer], Psalms 74:16--17, June 13, 1829

(4)

[Trust Yourself], Matthew 16:26, October 3, 1830

(4)

[The Lord's Supper], Romans 14:17, September 9, 1832

(10)

Nature

(457)

Selected Early Addresses and Lectures

The American Scholar

(13)

An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838

(12)

The Method of Nature

(12)

The Transcendentalist

(12)

From Essays: First Series

History

105

(15)

Self-Reliance

120

(17)

Compensation

137

(13)

Spiritual Laws

150

(13)

The Over-Soul

163

(11)

Circles

174

(9)

From Essays: Second Series

The Poet

183

(15)

Experience

198

(15)

Politics

213

(8)

New England Reformers

221

(13)

From Representative Men

Montaigne, or the Skeptic

234

(13)

Shakspeare, or the Poet

247

(14)

From The Conduct of Life

Fate

261

(18)

Power

279

(10)

Illusions

289

(8)

From Letters and Social Aims

From Poetry and Imagination

297

(22)

Quotation and Originality

319

(12)

From The Dial

The Editors to the Reader

331

(2)

Thoughts on Modern Literature

333

(15)

Miscellanies on His Contemporaries and His Times

From An Address...on...the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies

348

(11)

Address to the Citizens of Concord on the Fugitive Slave Law

359

(13)

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

372

(26)

Thoreau

398

(13)

Abraham Lincoln

411

(4)

From Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England

415

(14)

Selected Poetry

From Poems

429

(34)

The Sphinx

429

(3)

Each and All

432

(1)

The Problem

433

(2)

The Visit

435

(1)

Uriel

436

(2)

Hamatreya

438

(1)

The Rhodora

439

(1)

The Humble-Bee

440

(2)

The Snow-Storm

442

(1)

Fable

443

(1)

Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing

443

(3)

Give All to Love

446

(1)

Thine Eyes Still Shined

447

(1)

Eros

447

(1)

The Apology

448

(1)

Merlin, I

448

(2)

Merlin, II

450

(2)

Bacchus

452

(2)

Blight

454

(1)

Threnody

455

(7)

Concord Hymn

462

(1)

From May-Day and Other Pieces

463

(16)

From May-Day

463

(1)

Brahma

464

(1)

Nemesis

465

(1)

Boston Hymn

465

(3)

Voluntaries

468

(3)

Days

471

(1)

The Chartist's Complaint

472

(1)

The Titmouse

472

(3)

Sea-Shore

475

(1)

Two Rivers

476

(1)

Waldeinsamkeit

477

(1)

Terminus

478

(1)

From Elements

479

(2)

Art

479

(1)

Worship

480

(1)

From Quatrains

481

(1)

Memory

481

(1)

From Translations

481

(1)

Song of Seid Nimetollah of Kuhistan

481

(1)

Others

482

(2)

Grace

482

(1)

Cupido

483

(1)

[``Let Me Go Where E'er I Will'']

483

(1)

[``Ever the Rock of Ages Melts'']

483

(1)

From Journals and Notebooks

484

(307)

From Correspondence

To William Emerson, Concord, November 10, 1814

531

(3)

To Mary Moody Emerson, Cambridge, September 23, 1826

534

(1)

To William Emerson, Charleston, January 6 and 9, 1827

534

(1)

To Mary Moody Emerson, St. Augustine, March 15? 1827

534

(1)

To the Second Church and Society in Boston, Cambridge, January 30, 1829

535

(1)

To the Proprietors of the Second Church, Boston, September 11, 1832

536

(1)

To the Second Church and Society, Boston, December 22, 1832

536

(2)

To Edward Bliss Emerson, Boston, December 22, 1833

538

(1)

To Edward Bliss Emerson, Newton, May 31, 1834

539

(1)

To Lydia Jackson, Concord, January 24, 1835

540

(1)

To Lydia Jackson, Concord, February 1, 1835

540

(1)

To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, September 17, 1836

541

(1)

To William Emerson, Concord, October 31, 1836

541

(1)

To Martin Van Buren, Concord, April 23, 1838

542

(2)

For Henry David Thoreau, Concord, May 2, 1838

544

(1)

To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, May 10, 1838

545

(1)

To Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord, June 28, 1838

545

(1)

To Henry Ware Jr., Concord, July 28, 1838

546

(1)

To Henry Ware Jr., Concord, October 8, 1838

547

(1)

To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, October 17, 1838

548

(1)

To James Freeman Clarke, Concord, December 7, 1838

548

(1)

To Margaret Fuller, Concord, August 4, 1840

549

(1)

To Margaret Fuller, Concord, October 24, 1840

549

(1)

To Margaret Fuller, Concord, March 14, 1841

550

(1)

To Mary Moody Emerson, Concord, September 21, 1841

551

(1)

To Mary Moody Emerson, Concord, January 28, 1842

551

(1)

To Margaret Fuller, Concord, January 28, 1842

552

(1)

To Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Concord, January 28, 1842

552

(1)

To Caroline Sturgis, Concord, February 4, 1842

552

(1)

To Lidian Emerson, Providence, February 10, 1842

553

(1)

To Lidian Emerson, Castleton, Staten Island, March 1, 1842

553

(1)

To Margaret Fuller, Concord, June 7, 1843

554

(1)

To Charles Anderson Dana, Concord, October 18, 1843

554

(1)

To Margaret Fuller, Concord, December 17, 1843

555

(1)

To Christopher Pearse Cranch, Concord, June 7, 1844

555

(1)

To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, December 31, 1844

556

(1)

To William J. Rotch, Concord, November 17, 1845

557

(1)

To the Corporation of Harvard University, Concord, June 25, 1846

557

(1)

To William Henry Furness, Concord, August 6, 1847

558

(1)

To Henry David Thoreau, Manchester, December 2, 1847

559

(1)

To Lidian Emerson, London, March 8 and 10, 1848

559

(1)

To William Emerson, Concord, February 10, 1850

560

(1)

To Paulina W. Davis, Concord, September 18, 1850

561

(1)

To Wendell Phillips, Concord, February 19, 1853

561

(1)

To Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Concord, July 22, 1853

562

(1)

To Walt Whitman, Concord, July 21, 1855

563

(1)

To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, May 6, 1856

563

(1)

To Henry David Thoreau, Concord, May 11, 1858

564

(1)

To William Henry Seward, Buffalo, January 12, 1863

564

(1)

To Emma Lazarus, Concord, February 24, 1868

565

(1)

To Emma Lazarus, Concord, April 14, 1868

565

(1)

To Emma Lazarus, Concord, July 9, 1869

566

(1)

To Emma Lazarus, Concord, August 23, 1869

567

(1)

To Emma Lazarus, Concord, August 19, 1870

567

(1)

To Lidian Emerson, the Wyoming, October 31 and November 2, 1872

568

(1)

To Emma Lazarus, Concord, July 22, 1876

568

(1)

To George Stewart Jr., Concord, January 22, 1877

569

(4)

Contexts

Transcendentalism

From On Germany

573

(2)

Madame de Stael

Prospectus to The Recluse

575

(2)

William Wordsworth

From Coleridge's Literary Character

577

(3)

Frederic Henry Hedge

Genius

580

(4)

Sampson Reed

Reviews and Impressions

Caricatures

584

(2)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss

586

(2)

L. M. Sargent

Anonymous An Illustrated Criticism

588

(2)

From Nature---A Prose Poem

590

(7)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

The New School in Literature and Religion

597

(2)

Andrews Norton

Anonymous [Emerson's Essays]

599

(2)

Mr. Emerson's Lecture

601

(1)

Walter Whitman

Emerson's Essays

602

(4)

Margaret Fuller

From The Old Manse

606

(1)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

From A Fable for Critics

607

(2)

James Russell Lowell

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

609

(1)

Henry David Thoreau

From North America

610

(2)

Anthony Trollope

From Journals

612

(2)

Louisa May Alcott

To R. W. E.

614

(1)

Emma Lazarus

Emerson

615

(13)

Henry James

From Emerson

628

(5)

Jose Marti

Emerson

633

(6)

George Santayana

Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord

639

(4)

William James

Ralph Waldo Emerson

643

(5)

John Dewey

From Model Americans

648

(2)

D. H. Lawrence

On Emerson

650

(4)

Robert Frost

Emerson

654

(3)

A. R. Ammons

Criticism

Has Emerson a Future?

657

(6)

O. W. Firkins

Emerson's Tragic Sense

663

(5)

Stephen E. Whicher

New England's Transcendentalism: Native or Imported?

668

(11)

Perry Miller

The Problem of Emerson

679

(18)

Joel Porte

From The Achievement of the Poems: ``Artful Thunder''

697

(7)

Hyatt H. Waggoner

``Quotation and Originality''

704

(8)

Julie Ellison

Emerson and the Persistence of the Commodity

712

(13)

Michael T. Gilmore

Ralph Waldo Emerson

725

(13)

Barbara Packer

From The Philosopher in American Life

738

(4)

Stanley Cavell

From The Emersonian Prehistory of American Pragmatism

742

(16)

Cornel West

From Virtue's Hero

758

(9)

Len Gougeon

From Poetry and Pragmatism

767

(4)

Richard Poirier

The Heart Has Its Jubilees

771

(6)

Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Through a Thousand Voices: Emerson's Poetry and ``The Sphinx''

777

(14)

Saundra Morris

A Chronology

791

(3)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selected Bibliography

794

(5)

Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems

799

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