320 pages, 17 photos, 12 drawings, 2003
$26.00 paper 0-87745-842-1, 978-0-87745-842-5
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the seminal figures in American intellectual history, literature, and culture. In his time he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement; his poetic legacy stretches from Walt Whitman to Allen Ginsberg; his educational ideals have been embraced by many; and his religious concepts greatly influenced the development of the Unitarian (later Unitarian Universalist) church.
Ronald Bosco is Distinguished Service Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Albany, SUNY, and editor of the Emerson Papers at the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Past president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, he is currently president of the Thoreau Society.
Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina. Both editors are coordinating Emerson in 2003.
“I can't imagine a better source in one volume for the biographer, critic, or student of Emerson. Emerson in His Own Time is a treasury of fascinating anecdotes, many of them not generally known.” —Jerome Loving |
