Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems & Translations (LOA #70)

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Emersonā€™s incomparable brilliance as a prose writer has often overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. GatheringĀ both published and unpublished work, this Library of America edition makes available for the first time to general readers the full range of Emersonā€™s poetry, including many poems left in manuscript at his death that have hitherto been available only in drastically edited versions or specialized scholarly texts. Displacing all previous editions in its comprehensiveness and textual authority, this volume reveals the ecstatic, mystical, and private meditative sides of one of the greatest of all American writers.

All the poetry Emerson published during his lifetime is included in this single volume. His collections,Ā PoemsĀ (1847),Ā May-Day and Other PiecesĀ (1867), andĀ Selected PoemsĀ (1876), as well as other pieces written for magazines, fuse close observations of the New England landscape with far-reaching spiritual explorations. His familiarity with botany and geology, Greek philosophy, Persian poetry, and anti-slavery politics gives his writing an intellectual breadth, and a challenging, continuing modernity unique among American poets of his time.

More than half the volume is devoted to a generous selection of poetry from Emersonā€™s journals and notebooks, ranging from his childhood to his final years as a writer. This workā€”printed here as Emerson wrote it, without the revisions imposed by earlier editorsā€”is a revelation: a bounty of formal experimentation and speculative thought that displays, as in a painterā€™s sketchbook, the creative process at work.

Also included are Emersonā€™s little-known poetic translations, chiefly from the Persian poets Hafiz and Saadi, whose fusion of sensuality and mysticism so profoundly influenced his poetic thinking. With them is the completeĀ La Vita Nuova (The New Life), Danteā€™s meditation on love that Emerson translated into English for the first time.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAĀ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationā€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaā€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

This book title, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems & Translations (LOA #70), ISBN: 9780940450288, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harold Bloom, Paul Kane, published by Library of America (August 1, 1994) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harold Bloom, Paul Kane
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
640
Publisher:
Library of America (August 1, 1994)
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English
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9780940450288
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0940450283
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