Essays & lectures

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Main Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Other Authors: Porte, Joel
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Literary Classics of the U.S., [1983]
Series:Library of America ; [15].
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Item Description:Spine title: Essays and lectures.
"Joel Porte wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume" -- Leaf ff. t.p.
Physical Description:1,321 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:0940450151 :
Author Notes: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).

Joel Porte (1933-2006), volume editor, won the Bowdoin Prize in 1962 for his essay on Emerson, and was granted the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Emerson Society in 2006. He authored many studies of nineteenth-century and modern literature, including Emerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict, The Romance in America , and Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Time .