The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, ¿was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.¿ His celebrated essays are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

About the author

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 literary studies, focusing on nineteenth-century American constructions of literacy and letters.Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author and editor of many books, including A Writer’s America: Landscape in American Literature.

Summary

Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, “was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.” His celebrated essays are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Assisted by: Jean Ferguson Carr (Editor), Carr Jean Ferguson (Editor), Alfred R Ferguson (Editor), Alfred R. Ferguson (Editor), Ferguson Alfred R. (Editor), Kazin Alfred (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.1987
• EAN: 9780674267206
• ISBN: 978-0-674-26720-6
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: The Belknap Press; Belknap Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays