The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3 (COMPL SERMONS RALPH W EMERSON) [Hardcover]

Ronald A. Bosco (Editor), Albert J. von Frank (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0826207979 | ISBN-13: 978-0826207975 | Edition: 1

The forty-five sermons collected in Volume 3 were composed and first delivered between October 1830 and November 1831. During that time Emerson's first wife, Ellen Tucker Emerson, died of tuberculosis, a loss that deeply affected Emerson.

Transcribed and edited from manuscripts in Harvard's University's Houghton Library, the sermons are presented in a clear text approximating as nearly as possible the original version delivered to Emerson's congregation.  As well as the detailed chronology, explanatory footnotes, and textual endnotes found in previous volumes, this one contains a comprehensive index. 

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Like its predecessors volume three of Emerson's Complete Sermons is a model of accuracy and textual editing. Like them also the last third ('Textual Notes') includes Emerson's revisions, cancellations, supplements and related documents--all requiring great editorial patience. We owe a large debt to the team of scholars under the captaincy of Albert J. von Frank for ushering into print, after a century and a half in limbo, this block of important manuscripts."--American Renaissance Literary Report

About the Author

About the editor

Ronald A. Bosco is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany.  Among the books he has edited are volume 16 of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Albert J. von Frank is Professor of English at Washington State University.  He is the author of The Sacred Game:  Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630-1860 and coeditor of The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: University of Missouri; 1 edition (November 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826207979
• ISBN-13: 978-0826207975
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,571,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

There are few people as quoted and quotable as Ralph Waldo Emerson, founder of the transcendental movement and author of classic essays as Self-Reliance, Nature, and The American Scholar. Emerson began his career as a Unitarian minister and later put those oratory skills to move us toward a better society. More remains written on him than by him.