Emerson's Prose and Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)

Emerson's Prose and Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) by Emerson, Ralph Waldo. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780393967920.

The selections include Emerson’s major sermons, lectures, essays, addresses, and poems, as well as excerpts from his journals, notebooks, and correspondence."Contexts" addresses the topics of American Transcendentalism, philosophy, and Emersons contemporary reception."Criticism" includes thirteen twentieth-century essays by O. W. Firkins, Stephen E. Whicher, Perry Miller, Joel Porte, Hyatt H. Waggoner, Julie Ellison, Michael T. Gilmore, Barbara Packer, Stanley Cavell, Cornel West, Len Gougeon, Richard Poirier, and Saundra Morris.A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are included.