The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, 1838-1842

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edited by A. W. Plumstead

Edited by Harrison Hayford

    The span of time covered by these journals must surely be the most important of Emerson's literary career...This volume, like those in the series that preceded it, is well edited and printed...the journals throw a good deal of light on the meaning of the essays...they have much to say of Emerson's contemporaries, especially Thoreau, who became an intimate friend during these years.
       --Virginia Quarterly Review

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A. W. Plumstead is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Harrison Hayford is Professor of English at Northwestern University.