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Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays & Poems (Library of America College Editions) Paperback – May 1, 1996

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Joel Porte (Editor), Harold Bloom (Editor),
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Collects Emerson's essays and poetry on such topics as idealism, nature, and beauty.
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  1. Print length
    1376 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Library of America
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 1996
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. Dimensions
    5.14 x 1.99 x 7.74 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1883011329
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1883011321
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America; 1st Library of Ameri edition (May 1, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1883011329
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1883011321
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.14 x 1.99 x 7.74 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

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  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    There are few people as quoted and quotable as Ralph Waldo Emerson, founder of the transcendental movement and author of classic essays as Self-Reliance, Nature, and The American Scholar. Emerson began his career as a Unitarian minister and later put those oratory skills to move us toward a better society. More remains written on him than by him.

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    Paul Kane teaches at Vassar College and lives in Warwick, New York.

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Ryan P. Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 stars All the Published Emerson You Will Need
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2012
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Everything is here.

Just get his Journals and you will have completed your Emerson library.

The mythology of the growth of the mind is on fine display in this handsome volume.
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Jeremy Brunger
4.0 out of 5 stars Mysticism for the sane
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2015
I disagree with Emerson's politics, as the right wing and the libertarians have claimed him (self-reliance is a joke if you inherit money, as he did) but his prose style remains the standard in America and his hagiographies of great men is still great reading. Emerson was an enormous talent who certainly overshadowed Thoreau, with whom he is often grouped, and wrote better essays than did Mark Twain, whose pessimism I am sooner disposed to admire. Magnificent edition, even when I disagree with it. I don't rank his poems that highly--others wrote much better than he did in that field, and with more conviction--but their inclusion makes this book the one, single book a reader or scholar will need of Emerson.

Emerson inspired Nietzsche, which is enough of a recommendation. That both failed to live up to their individualist ideals says all that needs to be said of the philosophy in itself, but the utterly beautiful prose style, and the respect for prose as a medium of inspiration, is the keenest glimmering from the nineteenth century I can think of. Emerson was, I think, wrong about most of what he wrote about, especially the factual truth of transcendental possibility, but his descriptions of such illusions are the most artistic around, and his earnestness is sweet.
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Douglas A. Storm
5.0 out of 5 stars An Emerson Bible
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2000
There's no need to say much about this. It's Emerson. He is revered as our "First Man" in American--our truly Original Adam in the Morning. It has been said that all thinking in America since Emerson is either with him or against him. He inspires in both directions--Melville mocked him and Eliot scorned him while Dickinson learned from him and Whitman proclaimed that Emerson brought him to a boil. This divided reaction continues to this day (note the reverance of critic Harold Bloom and philosopher Stanley Cavell and at the same time the derision of John Updike and Robert Penn Warren) though he is certainly back in academic vogue.
This combination of two L of A editions (Essays and Poems are published separately) creates a book that can be your daily bread. This is essential Emerson at your fingertips. The actual book is voluminous yet not cumbersome--and though thick, it handles easily and wears well--perfect for compulsive thumbing through.
Here are some of my favorite books about Emerson, biographical and critical: "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson is by far my favorite biography (it is still said that the work by Ralph Rusk is the definitive "factual" bio); Bloom's work is peppered with essays on Emerson, "Agon" is a nice collection as is "Figures of Capable Imagination"; Richard Poirier writes with a constant eye toward Emerson ("The Renewal of Literature", "Poetry and Pragmatism") as does Stanley Cavel ("Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome", "This New Yet Unapproachable America"); and I really like a book by Mark Edmundson called "Towards Reading Freud : Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud". And there are hundreds of critical studies (probably thousands) to consult--the classic being Stephen Whicher's "Freedom and Fate" (but I like Jonathan Bishop's "Emerson on the Soul" better).
Enough rambling. Emerson continues to be startling at every turn--you may think you know him ("Hitch your wagon to a star", "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" etc.), but he will not be penned in.
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