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Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

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Description for Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims Hardback. Demonstrates the decline in Ralph Waldo Emerson's creative powers after 1865; the strain caused by the preparation of a poetry anthology and delivery of lectures at Harvard during this time; the devastating effect of a house fire in 1872; and, how the Emerson children and Cabot worked together to enable Emerson to complete a book. Editor(s): Johnson, Glen M.; Myerson, Joel. Series: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Num Pages: 670 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1066.

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. The volume takes up the topics of “Poetry and Imagination,” “Social Aims,” “Eloquence,” “Resources,” “The Comic,” “Quotation and Originality,” “Progress of Culture,” “Persian Poetry,” “Inspiration,” “Greatness,” and, appropriately for Emerson’s last published book, “Immortality.”The historical introduction demonstrates for the first time the decline in Emerson’s creative powers after 1865; the strain caused ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
670
Condition
New
Series
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Pages
670
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674035607
SKU
V9780674035607
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About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is General Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Glen M. Johnson is Professor of English, The Catholic University of America. Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, at the University of South Carolina.

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