Poems

A Variorum Edition

Author  Ralph Waldo Emerson Edited by  Albert J. Von Frank
Poems

At his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was counted among the greatest poets in nineteenth-century America. This variorum edition of all the poems Emerson chose for publication during his lifetime offers readers the opportunity to situate Emerson’s poetic achievement alongside his celebrated essays and to consider their interrelationship.

Decades before Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson took their places in the firmament of American poets, Emerson was securely enthroned. Though his reputation as essayist now eclipses his reputation as poet, Emerson self-identified as a writer of verse and worked out his transcendental philosophy in this genre, establishing his belief in the authority of individual experience and in the essential metaphoric nature of language. Albert J. von Frank’s historical introduction traces the…

Uncollected Prose Writings

Uncollected Prose Writings

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems

Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men

Representative Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Traits

English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: Second Series

Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1866-1882

1866-1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1860-1866

1860-1866

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First Series

Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1854-1861

1854-1861

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1852-1855

1852-1855

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1835-1862

1835-1862

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1848-1851

1848-1851

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1847-1848

1847-1848

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1838-1842

1838-1842

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1843-1847

1843-1847

Ralph Waldo Emerson