The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV, Representative Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction and notes by Wallace E. Williams

Text established by Douglas Emory Wilson

    Historical Introduction

    Statement of Editorial Principles

    Textual Introduction

    REPRESENTATIVE MEN: SEVEN LECTURES

    1. Uses of Great Men

    2. Plato, or the Philosopher, Plato: New Readings

    3. Swedenborg, or the Mystic

    4. Montaigne, or the Skeptic

    5. Shakspeare, or the Poet

    6. Napoleon, or the Man of the World

    7. Goethe, or the Writer

    Notes

    Textual Apparatus

    Annex A: The Manuscript

    Appendix 1: The 1850 Compositors

    Appendix 2 : Revisions in the Manuscript

    Annex B: Parallel Passages

    Index

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Douglas Emory Wilson, the former General Editor, was Textual Editor of the Collected Works at the time of his death in 2005.