The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abstract

The ten-volume Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the first scholarly edition of the author’s works. Guided by contemporary editing standards, the edition gathers together all the poetry and prose that Emerson published in his lifetime. The edition has complete sets of textual and explanatory notes as well as introductions detailing the history of the texts and Emerson’s publishing career. The volume devoted to poetry is a variorum edition, the first of its kind in Emerson scholarship. The edition rigorously omits the posthumous publications put together by Emerson’s family and literary executor.