Ralph Waldo Emerson : the major poetry /
edited, with introduction and commentary by Albert J. von Frank.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xix, 315 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 ; Astrĉa ; Étienne de la Boéce ; Suum Cuique ; Compensation ; Forbearance ; The park ; Forerunners ; Give all to love ; Eros ; Initial, Dĉmonic, 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.
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.