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by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.3
EAN: 9780393967920
ISBN: 0393967921
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 816
Publication Date: March 19, 2001
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 43821
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Rating:  - One anthology among the many - but nonetheless Emerson
Whether 'Modern Literary ' or 'Bantam' or 'Norton' or even the 'Collected Works' one comes to the essential thing which is the writing of Emerson himself.
There is almost always the selection from 'Nature' and 'The Harvard Divinity School Address' and selections of other 'Essays' and some of the poetry including the anthology pieces like 'Concord Hymn' and perhaps some of the diary writing.
Emerson is along with Thoreau is the great American prose-poet, the one whose prose reads ... Read More
Rating:  - How to make a good anthology bad
Despite its editors' best efforts, this is a very good Emerson anthology. All the most important texts are there, on Norton's customary thin onionskin paper, in a surprisingly compact volume, typeset nicely. The selection includes not just Nature and a handful of the best known of Emerson's First and Second Series of essays (though it would've been nice to include more of these central texts), but interesting early sermons and some of Emerson's late-career essays from Representative Men and The Conduct ... Read More
Rating: - Emerson 5, Critics 0
This volume is an excellent compendium of Emerson's work. It contains material not available in the Library of America editions. Beware of the critical essays, though, particularly the contemporary ones. It's hard to tell from Cornel West's essay whether or not he's actually read Emerson, but if he has, he didn't like him much. So why write an essay appraising Emerson? It's the silly, empty-headed kind of academic noodling that makes academia irrelevant to modern life.
This begs the larger ... Read More
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