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.
- ISBN10 0393967921
- ISBN13 9780393967920
- Publish Date 7 November 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition Critical edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 816
- Language English