Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--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.

The text is reproduced from the second and third volumes of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a critical edition which draws on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last half century. Alfred R. Ferguson was founding editor of the edition, followed by Joseph Slater (until 1996).

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 12/12/1987
Pages: 410
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.21w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780674267206