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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Harold Bloom & Paul Kane selected the Texts & wrote the Notes for this volume.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: A REVELATION: NEW Library of America First edition hardcover (orig. 2001) First printing, NEW LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW British-green rayon-weave silk-finish Bril…lianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & emerald silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, pristine interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on superb acid-free Ecusta Nyallite archival paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.57 kg, 637 pp. * CONTENTS: Poems-1847 (1), May-Day & Other Pieces-1867 (127), from Selected Poems-1876 (219), Other Published Poems & Translations (237), Manuscript Poems & Translations (271); Chronology (553), Note on the Texts (570), Notes (590), Index of Titles & First Lines (625) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Emerson's incomparable brilliance as a prose writer has often overshadowed his remarkable gifts as a poet. Gathering both published & unpublished work, this LOA edition makes available for the first time to general readers the full range of Emerson's poetry, including many poems left in manuscript at his death that have hitherto been available only in drastically edited versions or specialized scholarly texts. Displacing all previous editions in its comprehensiveness & textual authority, this volume reveals the ecstatic, mystical, & private meditative sides of one of the greatest of all American writers. All the poetry Emerson published during his lifetime is included in this single volume. His collections, "Poems" (1847), "May-Day and Other Pieces" (1867), & "Selected Poems" (1876), as well as other pieces written for magazines, fuse close observations of the New England landscape w/ far-reaching spiritual explorations. His familiarity w/ botany & geology, Greek philosophy, Persian poetry, & anti-slavery politics gives his writing an intellectual breadth, & a challenging continuing modernity unique among American poets of his time. More than half the volume is devoted to a generous selection of poetry from Emerson's journals & notebooks, ranging from his childhood to his final years as a writer. This work (printed here as Emerson wrote it, w/o the revisions imposed by earlier editors) is a revelation: a bounty of formal experimentation & speculative thought that displays, as in a painter's sketchbook, the creative process at work. Also included are Emerson's little-known poetic translations, chiefly from the Persian poets Hafiz & Saadi, whose fusion of sensuality & mysticism so profoundly influenced his poetic thinking. W/ them is the complete "La Vita Nuova" (The New Life), Dante's meditation on love that Emerson translated into English for the first time.* THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.
