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The selected letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By Emerson, Ralph Waldo & Myerson, Joel
- ISBN
- 978-0-23110-282-7
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1998
From the 4500 letters Emerson wrote during his long career and which Ralph L. Rusk first began publishing free of cosmetic editing only in 1939, Myerson, former president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and currently Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina, has here selected 350 that, together, offer a vivid and accurate picture of this essential figure in American literature. Preceded by a helpful chronology and bri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
