Description: Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.
Brief description: Alfred R. Ferguson (1915-1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Review Quotes: A 'critical' and unmodernized text as close to Emerson's original intent as modern bibliographic research can come.-- "Library Journal"