Ralph Waldo Emerson : the major poetry / edited, with introduction and commentary by Albert J. von Frank.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts. 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.

From Poems (1847): The sphinx ; Each and all ; The problem ; The visit ; Uriel ; Alphonso of Castile ; Mithridates ; To J.W. ; Hamatreya ; Good-bye ; The rhodora ; The humble-bee ; Berrying ; The snow-storm ; Woodnotes II ; Monadnoc ; Fable ; Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing ; Astræa ; Étienne de la Boéce ; Suum Cuique ; Compensation ; Forbearance ; The park ; Forerunners ; Give all to love ; Eros ; Initial, Dæmonic, and celestial love ; The apology ; Merlin I ; Merlin II ; Bacchus ; The house -- Ghaselle: from the Persian of Hafiz ; Xenophanes ; Blight ; Musketaquid ; Dirge ; Threnody ; Concord hymn -- From May-Day and Other Pieces (1867): May-Day ; The adirondacs ; Brahma ; Freedom ; Ode sung in the town hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 ; Boston hymn ; Voluntaries ; Love and thought -; Rubies ; Merlin's song ; The Romany girl ; Days ; The chartist's complaint ; The titmouse ; Sea-shore ; Song of nature ; Two rivers ; Waldeinsamkeit ; Terminus ; The past ; S.H. ; A.H. ; "Suum Cuique" ; Artist ; Poet ; Gardener ; Forester ; Northman ; From Alcuin ; Excelsior ; Horoscope ; Climacteric ; Heri, Cras, Hodie ; Pericles ; Casella ; Hafiz ; Nature in leasts ; '???????????????????? ; Song of Seid Nimetollah of Kuhistan -- From Selected Poems (1876): Cupido -- Uncollected Poems: Silence ; Grace ; Nature -- Appendix: The Ellen Poems, 1828-1831.

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