The selected letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: edited by Joel Myerson.
Contributors: Myerson, Joel.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Correspondence; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Description: The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson presents Emerson at his most guarded and his most vulnerable, writing to other Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, to his wife and brothers, to friends like Longfellow and Whitman. With effusions of love, messages of condolence, letters of support for Thoreau and Whitman, and critiques of friends' writings, this extraordinary collection presents an Emerson deeply connected to the world around him.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-15) and index.