Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson. brings to life an Emerson very different from the stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man.
				The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau’s manuscripts and on retracing his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau’s life and achievements in their full nineteenth-century context.
				From the Colonial Era to the early Twentieth Century – three hundred years of the America’s best poetry. A comprehensive overview of America’s vast poetic heritage, Three Centuries of American Poetry features the work of some 150 of our nation’s finest writers. It includes selections from Anne Bradstreet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e.e. cummings, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Gertrude Stein, as well as significant works of lesser known American poets.
				A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest native philosophers and poets.
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