Ralph Waldo Emerson has always fascinated students of criticism and of American literature and thought. Emerson s Literary Criticism supplies the continuing need for an anthology. This collection brings together Emerson s literary criticism from a wide variety of sources.Eric W. Carlson has culled both the major statements of Emerson's critical principles and many secondary observations that illuminate them. Here are more than sixty selections on thirty-five critical topics. Headnotes provide valuable background. Carlson relates Emerson s critical principles to his philosophy, social...