This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals.
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"All libraries serving serious students of literature should have these volumes." Q. Grigg, Choice
"The usefulness of such a collection is related to the quality of the reviews themselves. In this case, their range, seriousness, and number, particularly in response to Emerson's work, is an index of mid-nineteenth century New England's cultural synergy. Most of those reprinted here have something substantial to say, and many are long essays that meet Emerson with something like his own intensity and seriousness, engaging his ideas and analyzing his style....[T]hese early responses remain valuable to all serious readers of Emerson and Thoreau, not just to literary historians. Among other things, they are a kind of casebook of 'the new importance given to the single person' (Emerson, 'The American Scholar') that Emerson and Thoreau discerned and fostered in their own time." Bruce Greenfield, Dalhousie Review
"The usefulness of such a collection is related to the quality of the reviews themselves. In this case, their range, seriousness, and number, particularly in response to Emerson's work, is an index of mid-nineteenth century New England's cultural synergy. Most of those reprinted here have something substantial to say, and many are long essays that meet Emerson with something like his own intensity and seriousness, engaging his ideas and analyzing his style....[T]hese early responses remain valuable to all serious readers of Emerson and Thoreau, not just to literary historians. Among other things, they are a kind of casebook of 'the new importance given to the single person' (Emerson, 'The American Scholar') that Emerson and Thoreau discerned and fostered in their own time." Bruce Greenfield, Dalhousie Review
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This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals.
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New England, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Review of Walden, Checklist of Additional Reviews, United States, Christian Examiner, North American Review, Divinity School Address, Westminster Review, Literary Gazette, New Testament, Social Aims, Jesus Christ, Monthly Magazine, New York Daily Tribune, Review of Essays, Saturday Review, Thomas Carlyle, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar Address, Christian Register, Henry Thoreau, New Hampshire, Phi Beta Kappa, Universalist Quarterly New!
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New England, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Review of Walden, Checklist of Additional Reviews, United States, Christian Examiner, North American Review, Divinity School Address, Westminster Review, Literary Gazette, New Testament, Social Aims, Jesus Christ, Monthly Magazine, New York Daily Tribune, Review of Essays, Saturday Review, Thomas Carlyle, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar Address, Christian Register, Henry Thoreau, New Hampshire, Phi Beta Kappa, Universalist Quarterly New!
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- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry D. Thoreau on 21 pages
- The Conduct Of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 19 pages
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- A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau (Historical Guides to American Authors) by William E. Cain on page 54, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Joel Myerson in Front Matter, page 91, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Joel Porte on page 264, and Back Matter
- Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology by James McKusick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Emerson by Lawrence Buell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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