Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson (English) Hardcover
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Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. von Frank Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry presents a selection of definitively edited texts that remind us why Emerson s poetry matters and why he remains one of our most important theoreticians of verse. Drawn chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works, each poem is accompanied by a headnote for the student and general reader. Publisher Description Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works. Accompanying each poem is a headnote prepared by Albert von Frank for the student and general reader, which serves as an entryway to the poem, offering critical and historical contexts. Detailed annotations provide further guidance.A master of the essay form, a philosopher of moods and self-reliance, and the central figure in the American romantic movement, Emerson makes many claims on our attention. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry reminds us exactly why his poetry also matters and why he remains one of our most important theoreticians of verse. Emerson saw his poetry and philosophy as coordinate ways of seeing the world. It is not metres, he once declared, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem,-a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Year: 2015
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780674049598
- Condition: Fine
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