Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose
volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn
chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works. Accompanying each
poem is a headnote prepared by Albert von Frank for the student and
general reader, which serves as an entryway to the poem, offering
critical and historical contexts. Detailed annotations provide
further guidance. A master of the essay form, a philosopher of
moods and self-reliance, and the central figure in the American
romantic movement, Emerson makes many claims on our attention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry reminds us exactly why his
poetry also matters and why he remains one of our most important
theoreticians of verse. Emerson saw his poetry and philosophy as
coordinate ways of seeing the world. "It is not metres," he once
declared, "but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem,-a
thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant
or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature
with a new thing." All the major poems published in Emerson's
lifetime-chosen from Poems (1847), May-Day and Other Pieces (1867),
and Selected Poems (1876) as well as uncollected poems-are
represented here. Also included in an appendix is the first
selection ever made of the poems and poetic fragments that Emerson
addressed to his first wife, Ellen, during their courtship and
marriage and concluding with the anguish of bereavement following
her death on February 8, 1831, at the age of nineteen.
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