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The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson Hardcover - 1998

by Joel Myerson (Editor)

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Virtually no writer has so influenced American thought as Ralph Waldo Emerson--called the heart and soul of Transcendentalism. Here renowned Emerson scholar Joel Myerson distills the essential core of this great thinker's vast letter-writing endeavors into one volume, presenting a collection of 350 pieces of correspondence written between 1813 and 1880. Emerson is revealed as thoroughly engaged with the vital issues of his day.

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Details

  • Title The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 1998-01-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5943815-6
  • ISBN 9780231102827 / 0231102828
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.26 x 1.47 in (23.50 x 15.90 x 3.73 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 19th century, Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97015060
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

First line

I lately heard of our cousin Caspers death you don't know how affected cousin Rebbeca was.

From the rear 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.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 02/01/1998, Page 84
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/12/1998, Page 52

About the author

Joel Myerson is former president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and the Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina. He has written and edited numerous books on nineteenth-century American writers.

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