Ralph Waldo Emerson Class (1)
This is a preliminary matter designed for the course on Ralph Waldo Emerson starting in April, 1996, on the Graduate Studies of Letters and on the Faculty of Letters, Kobe U, Japan.
Biographical Notes
- Born May 25, 1803
- Died Apr. 27, 1882
- Ordained: pastor of the prestigious Second Unitarian Church in Boston (1829)
- Married: Ellen Louisa Tucker (September 1829) (Ellen d. February 1831)
- Edited: transcendentalists' periodical, the Dial, from 1842 until its collapse in 1844
- Volumes published in his lifetime: Essays (2 vols., 1841, 1844), Poems (1847), Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849), Representative Men (1850), English Traits (1856), The Conduct of Life (1860)
- Influence on: Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman
- Challenged by: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
Bibliography
- Allen, Gay., Waldo Emerson (1981)
- Bishop, Jonathan, Emerson on the Soul (1964)
- Bloom, Harold., ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson (1985)
- Bloom, Harold., and Kane, Paul, eds., Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations (1994)
- Burkholder, R.E., and Myerson, Joel, eds., Critical Essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983)
- Cabot, James Elliott, A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2 vols. (1887; repr. 1969)
- Cady, E.H., and Budd, L.J., eds., On Emerson (1988)
- Derleth, August, Emerson, Our Contemporary (1970)
- Ellison, J., Emerson's Romantic Style (1984)
- Emerson, Edward W., ed., The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 12 vols. (1903-04)
- Hodder, A.D., Emerson's Rhetoric of Revelation (1989)
- Hopkins, Vivian C., Spires of Form: A Study of Emerson's Aesthetic Theory (1951; repr. 1980)
- Matthiessen, F.O., American Renaissance (1941; repr. 1968)
- Paul, Sherman, Emerson's Angle of Vision (1952; repr. 1980)
- Poirier, Richard, The Renewal of Literature (1988)
- Porte, Joel, Emerson (1982)
- Porte, Joel, ed., Emerson: Essays and Lectures (1983)
- Richardson Jr., Robert D., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
- Robinson, David, Apostle of Culture (1982)
- Rosenwald, Lawrence, Emerson and the Art of Diary (1988)
- Staebler, Warren, Ralph Walso Emerson (1973)
- Van Leer, David, Emerson's Epistemology (1986)
- Whicher, Stephen, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2d ed. (1953)
- Yannella, Donald, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982).
I've compiled the above information referring to some standard reference materials, including The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Grolier Encyclopedia, etc.
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