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 Emerson's 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.
| ISBN: | 9780393967920 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2001 |
| Author: | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 816 pages |
| Series: | Norton Critical Editions |
| Genres: |
Anthologies: general Poetry by individual poets Literary essays Literary studies: poetry and poets |