ISBN10: 0940450283, ISBN13: 9780940450288, [publisher: Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Emerson's incomparable brilliance as a prose writer has often overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. Gathering both published and unpublished work, this Library of America edition makes available for the first time to general readers the full range of Emerson's poetry, including many poems left in manuscript at his death that have hitherto been available only in drastically edited versions or specialized scholarly texts. Displacing all previous editions in its comprehensiveness and textual authority, this volume reveals the ecstatic, mystical, and private meditative sides of one of the greatest of all American writers. All the poetry Emerson published during his lifetime is included in this single volume. His collections, Poems (1847), May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), and Selected Poems (1876), as well as other pieces written for magazines, fuse close observations of the New England landscape with far-reaching spiritual explorations. His familiarity with botany and geology, Greek philosophy, Persian poetry, and anti-slavery politics gives his writing an intellectual breadth, and a challenging, continuing modernity unique among American poets of his time. More than half the volume is devoted to a generous selection of poetry from Emerson's journals and notebooks, ranging from his childhood to his final years as a writer. This work--printed ...
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Library of America 1994 Hardcover Good. No Jacket Silk book mark mostly gone due to fraying, no slipcase.

ISBN10: 0940450283, ISBN13: 9780940450288, [publisher: Library of America August 1994] Hardcover Silk book mark mostly gone due to fraying, no slipcase
[St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]

Library of America, August Date: 1994. Hardcover . 8.5 Bulk HB Premium. 1994. Library of America ISBN 0940450283 9780940450288 [US]

ISBN10: 0940450283, ISBN13: 9780940450288, [publisher: The Library of America] Hardcover pp. 640
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]