The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction and notes by Robert E. Spiller

Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson

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This, the first volume in what will unquestionably be the definitive edition of Emerson's collected works, includes such major essays as 'Nature,' 'The American Scholar,' and 'The Divinity School Address'...Spiller and Ferguson have produced a 'critical' and unmodernized text as close to Emerson's original intent as modern bibliographical research can come.
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This volume presents the most definitive, critical, and unmodernized text of Emerson's major published writings from the years 1836-42.
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The editorial information does not dwarf the work being edited, or make the book unwieldy. This volume of the new Works will serve all needs, from those of the mythical 'general reader' to the most serious Emerson scholar.
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Alfred R. Ferguson was, until his death, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.