The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson

Text established by Jean Ferguson Carr

Introduction by Alfred Kazin

    Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.
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Alfred R. Ferguson was, until his death, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Alfred Kazin is Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including, most recently, A Writer's America: Landscape in American Literature.