Emerson's Poetry and Prose

A Norton Critical Edition

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saundra Morris, Joel Porte

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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.

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Note on the Texts	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xvi
The Texts of Emerson's Prose and Poetry
Sermons
I. [Pray Without Ceasing], 1 Thessalonians 5:17, July 25, 1826	p. 3
XXXIX. [Summer], Psalms 74:16-17, June 13, 1829	p. 9
XC. [Trust Yourself], Matthew 16:26, October 3, 1830	p. 13
CLXII. [The Lord's Supper], Romans 14:17, September 9, 1832	p. 17
Nature	p. 27
Selected Early Addresses and Lectures
The American Scholar	p. 56
An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838	p. 69
The Method of Nature	p. 81
The Transcendentalist	p. 93
From Essays: First Series
History	p. 105
Self-Reliance	p. 120
Compensation	p. 137
Spiritual Laws	p. 150
The Over-Soul	p. 163
Circles	p. 174
From Essays: Second Series
The Poet	p. 183
Experience	p. 198
Politics	p. 213
New England Reformers	p. 221
From Representative Men
Montaigne, or the Skeptic	p. 234
Shakspeare, or the Poet	p. 247
From The Conduct of Life
Fate	p. 261
Power	p. 279
Illusions	p. 289
From Letters and Social Aims
From Poetry and Imagination	p. 297
Quotation and Originality	p. 319
From The Dial
The Editors to the Reader	p. 331
Thoughts on Modern Literature	p. 333
Miscellanies on His Contemporaries and His Times
From An Address... on... the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies	p. 348
Address to the Citizens of Concord on the Fugitive Slave Law	p. 359
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli	p. 372
Thoreau	p. 398
Abraham Lincoln	p. 411
From Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England	p. 415
Selected Poetry
From Poems	p. 429
The Sphinx	p. 429
Each and All	p. 432
The Problem	p. 433
The Visit	p. 435
Uriel	p. 436
Hamatreya	p. 438
The Rhodora	p. 439
The Humble-Bee	p. 440
The Snow-Storm	p. 442
Fable	p. 443
Ode, Inscribed to W. H. Channing	p. 443
Give All to Love	p. 446
Thine Eyes Still Shined	p. 447
Eros	p. 447
The Apology	p. 448
Merlin, I	p. 448
Merlin, II	p. 450
Bacchus	p. 452
Blight	p. 454
Threnody	p. 455
Concord Hymn	p. 462
From May-Day and Other Pieces	p. 463
From May-Day	p. 463
Brahma	p. 464
Nemesis	p. 465
Boston Hymn	p. 465
Voluntaries	p. 468
Days	p. 471
The Chartist's Complaint	p. 472
The Titmouse	p. 472
Sea-Shore	p. 475
Two Rivers	p. 476
Waldeinsamkeit	p. 477
Terminus	p. 478
From Elements	p. 479
Art	p. 479
Worship	p. 480
From Quatrains	p. 481
Memory	p. 481
From Translations	p. 481
Song of Seid Nimetollah of Kuhistan	p. 481
Others	p. 482
Grace	p. 482
Cupido	p. 483
["Let Me Go Where E'er I Will"]	p. 483
["Ever the Rock of Ages Melts"]	p. 483
From Journals and Notebooks	p. 484
From Correspondence
To William Emerson, Concord, November 10, 1814	p. 531
To Mary Moody Emerson, Cambridge, September 23, 1826	p. 534
To William Emerson, Charleston, January 6 and 9, 1827	p. 534
To Mary Moody Emerson, St. Augustine, March 15? 1827	p. 534
To the Second Church and Society in Boston, Cambridge, January 30, 1829	p. 535
To the Proprietors of the Second Church, Boston, September 11, 1832	p. 536
To the Second Church and Society, Boston, December 22, 1832	p. 536
To Edward Bliss Emerson, Boston, December 22, 1833	p. 538
To Edward Bliss Emerson, Newton, May 31, 1834	p. 539
To Lydia Jackson, Concord, January 24, 1835	p. 540
To Lydia Jackson, Concord, February 1, 1835	p. 540
To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, September 17, 1836	p. 541
To William Emerson, Concord, October 31, 1836	p. 541
To Martin Van Buren, Concord, April 23, 1838	p. 542
For Henry David Thoreau, Concord, May 2, 1838	p. 544
To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, May 10, 1838	p. 545
To Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord, June 28, 1838	p. 545
To Henry Ware Jr., Concord, July 28, 1838	p. 546
To Henry Ware Jr., Concord, October 8, 1838	p. 547
To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, October 17, 1838	p. 548
To James Freeman Clarke, Concord, December 7, 1838	p. 548
To Margaret Fuller, Concord, August 4, 1840	p. 549
To Margaret Fuller, Concord, October 24, 1840	p. 549
To Margaret Fuller, Concord, March 14, 1841	p. 550
To Mary Moody Emerson, Concord, September 21, 1841	p. 551
To Mary Moody Emerson, Concord, January 28, 1842	p. 551
To Margaret Fuller, Concord, January 28, 1842	p. 552
To Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Concord, January 28, 1842	p. 552
To Caroline Sturgis, Concord, February 4, 1842	p. 552
To Lidian Emerson, Providence, February 10, 1842	p. 553
To Lidian Emerson, Castleton, Staten Island, March 1, 1842	p. 553
To Margaret Fuller, Concord, June 7, 1843	p. 554
To Charles Anderson Dana, Concord, October 18, 1843	p. 554
To Margaret Fuller, Concord, December 17, 1843	p. 555
To Christopher Pearse Cranch, Concord, June 7, 1844	p. 555
To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, December 31, 1844	p. 556
To William J. Rotch, Concord, November 17, 1845	p. 557
To the Corporation of Harvard University, Concord, June 25, 1846	p. 557
To William Henry Furness, Concord, August 6, 1847	p. 558
To Henry David Thoreau, Manchester, December 2, 1847	p. 559
To Lidian Emerson, London, March 8 and 10, 1848	p. 559
To William Emerson, Concord, February 10, 1850	p. 560
To Paulina W. Davis, Concord, September 18, 1850	p. 561
To Wendell Phillips, Concord, February 19, 1853	p. 561
To Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Concord, July 22, 1853	p. 562
To Walt Whitman, Concord, July 21, 1855	p. 563
To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, May 6, 1856	p. 563
To Henry David Thoreau, Concord, May 11, 1858	p. 564
To William Henry Seward, Buffalo, January 12, 1863	p. 564
To Emma Lazarus, Concord, February 24, 1868	p. 565
To Emma Lazarus, Concord, April 14, 1868	p. 565
To Emma Lazarus, Concord, July 9, 1869	p. 566
To Emma Lazarus, Concord, August 23, 1869	p. 567
To Emma Lazarus, Concord, August 19, 1870	p. 567
To Lidian Emerson, the Wyoming, October 31 and November 2, 1872	p. 568
To Emma Lazarus, Concord, July 22, 1876	p. 568
To George Stewart Jr., Concord, January 22, 1877	p. 569
Contexts
Transcendentalism
From On Germany	p. 573
Prospectus to The Recluse	p. 575
From Coleridge's Literary Character	p. 577
Genius	p. 580
Reviews and Impressions
Caricatures	p. 584
Ballad of the Abolition Blunder-buss	p. 586
An Illustrated Criticism	p. 588
From Nature--A Prose Poem	p. 590
The New School in Literature and Religion	p. 597
[Emerson's Essays]	p. 599
Mr. Emerson's Lecture	p. 601
Emerson's Essays	p. 602
From The Old Manse	p. 606
From A Fable for Critics	p. 607
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	p. 609
From North America	p. 610
From Journals	p. 612
To R. W. E.	p. 614
Emerson	p. 615
From Emerson	p. 628
Emerson	p. 633
Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord	p. 639
Ralph Waldo Emerson	p. 643
From Model Americans	p. 648
On Emerson	p. 650
Emerson	p. 654
Criticism
Has Emerson a Future?	p. 657
Emerson's Tragic Sense	p. 663
New England's Transcendentalism: Native or Imported?	p. 668
The Problem of Emerson	p. 679
From The Achievement of the Poems: "Artful Thunder"	p. 697
"Quotation and Originality"	p. 704
Emerson and the Persistence of the Commodity	p. 712
Ralph Waldo Emerson	p. 725
From The Philosopher in American Life	p. 738
From The Emersonian Prehistory of American Pragmatism	p. 742
From Virtue's Hero	p. 758
From Poetry and Pragmatism	p. 767
The Heart Has Its Jubilees	p. 771
Through a Thousand Voices: Emerson's Poetry and "The Sphinx"	p. 777
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Chronology	p. 791
Selected Bibliography	p. 794
Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems	p. 799
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