Ralph Waldo Emerson : : The Major Prose / / Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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• VerfasserIn: Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 p.) :; 1 line illustration

Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered Emerson's most memorable prose published under his direct supervision, enhanced by additional writings. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose is the only single-volume anthology that presents the full range of Emerson's written and spoken prose-sermons, lectures, addresses, and essays.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Textual Policies -- Sermon CLXII ["The Lord's Supper"] (1832) -- The Uses of Natural History (1833-1835) -- Nature (1836) -- Humanity of Science (1836, 1847-1848) -- The American Scholar (1837) -- The Divinity School Address (1838) -- Self-Reliance (1841) -- Circles (1841) -- The Transcendentalist (1842, 1849) -- New England: Genius, Manners, and Customs (1843-1844) -- The Poet (1844) -- Experience (1844) -- Nominalist and Realist (1844) -- An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies -- England (1848-1852) -- Uses of Great Men (1850) -- The Anglo-American (1852-1855) -- American Slavery (1855) -- Address at the Woman's Rights Convention (1855) -- Mr. R. W. Emerson's Remarks at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge (1856) -- The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy (1858) -- Fate (1860) -- American Civilization (1862) -- Thoreau (1862) -- The President's Proclamation (1862) -- The Scholar (1863) -- Character (1866) -- Works and Days (1870) -- Credits -- Index