Jan 4, 2010
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909-1914), written over a period of fifty-five years (1820-1875), were ultimately the source of everything else he wrote. These have been edited in ten volumes by Edward W. Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes. From this set a fine one-volume collection has been edited by Bliss Perry, The Heart of Emerson’s Journals (1926). Ralph L. Rusk has also edited The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson in six volumes (1939). Emerson was a noted lecturer in his day, although many of his...
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