Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson : : Letters and Social Aims / / Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jean Ferguson Carr; ed. by Joel Myerson.

Letters and Social Aims, published in 1875, contains essays originally published early in the 1840s as well as those that were the product of a collaborative effort among Ralph Waldo Emerson, his daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, his son Edward Waldo Emerson, and his literary executor James Eliot Cabot...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Physical Description:1 online resource (670 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • NOTE ON NUMBERING AND DOCUMENTATION
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • Historical Introduction
  • Statement of Editorial Principles
  • Textual Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Poetry and Imagination
  • CHAPTER 2 Social Aims
  • CHAPTER 3 Eloquence
  • CHAPTER 4 Resources
  • CHAPTER 5 The Comic
  • CHAPTER 6 Quotation and Originality
  • CHAPTER 7 Progress of Culture
  • CHAPTER 8 Persian Poetry
  • CHAPTER 9 Inspiration
  • CHAPTER 10 Greatness
  • CHAPTER 11 Immortality
  • NOTES
  • TEXTUAL APPARATUS
  • ANNEX A THE MANUSCRIPTS
  • APPENDIX TO ANNEX A ALTERATIONS IN THE MANUSCRIPTS
  • ANNEX B PARALLEL PASSAGES
  • INDEX