Representative Men

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol IV

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edited by Andrew Delbanco

    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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Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Among his many publications are The Puritan Ordeal and The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (both from Harvard).