{"product_id":"ralph-waldo-emerson-the-major-poetry-9780674049598","title":"Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003elike its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn chiefly from the multivolume \u003ci\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/i\u003e. Accompanying each poem is a headnote prepared by Albert von Frank for the student and general reader, which serves as an entryway to the poem, offering critical and historical contexts. Detailed annotations provide further guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA master of the essay form, a philosopher of moods and self-reliance, and the central figure in the American romantic movement, Emerson makes many claims on our attention. \u003ci\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us exactly why his poetry also matters and why he remains one of our most important theoreticians of verse. Emerson saw his poetry and philosophy as coordinate ways of seeing the world. \"It is not metres,\" he once declared, \"but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, --a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll the major poems published in Emerson's lifetime--chosen from \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e (1847), \u003ci\u003eMay-Day and Other Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e (1867), and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1876) as well as uncollected poems--are represented here. Also included in an appendix is the first selection ever made of the poems and poetic fragments that Emerson addressed to his first wife, Ellen, during their courtship and marriage and concluding with the anguish of bereavement following her death on February 8, 1831, at the age of nineteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674049598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/07\/2015 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVon Frank, Albert J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Albert J. von Frank is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40628608958579,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":54.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_cd160180-fac9-4a96-bcdb-8c47da1b7768.jpg?v=1671114614","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ralph-waldo-emerson-the-major-poetry-9780674049598","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}