Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

ISBN-13: 9781554812691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 408 str.

Ralph Waldo Emerson; Robert D. Habich

Opis

Essayist, lecturer, poet, and America's first "public intellectual", Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is the central figure in nineteenth-century American letters and the leader (albeit reluctantly) of the Transcendental group. This collection contains a range of prose and poetry representing some of Emerson's central concerns.

Spis treści

• Selected Prose
• Nature (1836)
• Phi Beta Kappa Address (“The American Scholar,” 1837)
• Divinity School Address (1838)
• From “Thoughts on Modern Literature” (Dial, October 1840)
• “Circles” (1841, Essays: First Series)
• “Self-Reliance” (1841, Essays: First Series)
• “Experience” (1844, Essays: Second Series)
• “The Poet” (1844, Essays: Second Series)
• “The Uses of Great Men” (1850, Representative Men)
• From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
• “Land” (1856, English Traits)
• “Illusions” (Atlantic Monthly, November 1857)
• “Fate” (1860, Conduct of Life)
• “Old Age” (Atlantic Monthly, January 1862)
• “Thoreau” (Atlantic Monthly, August 1862) From “Immortality” (1876, Letters and Social Aims)
• Selected Poetry
• “Concord Hymn” (1837)“Each and All” (1839)
• “The Rhodora” (1839)
• “Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing” (1841) “The Apology” (1845)
• “Hamatreya” (1847) “The Snow-Storm” (1847)
• “Threnody” (1847)
• “Brahma” (1857) “Days” (1867)
• “Terminus” (1867)
• Appendix A: Transcendentalism
• From Sampson Reed, Observations on the Growth of the Mind (1828, 1838)
• From William Ellery Channing, “Likeness to God” (1828)
• Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalism Defined (letter to Caroline Sturgis, 1837)
• From Francis Bowen, review of Nature (1837)
• From William Henry Channing, Transcendentalism (1852)
• From Louisa May Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats” (1873)
• From Caroline Healey Dall, Transcendentalism in New England: A Lecture (1895)
• Appendix B: The Miracles Controversy
• From Orestes Augustus Brownson, New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church (1836)
• From Andrews Norton, “The New School in Literature and Religion” (1838)
• From James Freeman Clarke, “R.W. Emerson, and the New School” (1838)
• From Andrews Norton, A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity (1839)
• From George Ripley, “The Latest Form of Infidelity” Examined (1839)
• From Andrews Norton, Remarks on a Pamphlet Entitled ""'The Latest Form of Infidelity' Examined” (1839)
• Appendix C: Contemporary Writers on Emerson
• From Edgar Allan Poe, “Ralph Waldo Emerson” ( 1842)
• From Margaret Fuller, “American Literature” (1846)
• From James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics (1848)
• From Walt Whitman, With Emerson in Boston (1882)
• From Matthew Arnold, “Emerson” (1885)
• Appendix D: Emerson in His Time
• From Margaret Fuller, “Emerson’s Essays” (1844)
• From Henry James, Sr. Emerson (c. 1868, published 1904)
• From Anonymous, “Reminiscences,” New York Times (1882)
• From Louisa May Alcott, Recollection of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1889)
• From Nathan Haskell Dole, “Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson” (1899)
• From George Santayana, “Emerson” (1900)