Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) settled in Concord,
Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public
lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of
most of his essays. His principal publications
include Nature (1836), two volumes
of Essays (1841,
1844), Poems (1847), Representative
Men (1850), The Conduct of Life (1860),
and Society and Solitude (1870).
Harold Bloom and Paul Kane, volume editors,
are, respectively, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at
Yale University, and assistant professor of English at Vassar
College.
A surprise awaits those who think of Emerson only as an essayist… For a personal close-up of a public man, here are evidences of eros, mourning and celebration.” —Christian Century
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