Uncollected Writings: Essays, Addresses, Poems, Reviews and Letters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Uncollected Writings: Essays, Addresses, Poems, Reviews and Letters

This present volume contains nothing but authentic Emerson material not appearing in any of the collected editions or in any of the so-called "Complete Works." Many of the pieces in this volume are of great importance and should have been given to the public long ago. The initial piece, "Nature," is an individual essay, distinct from all others of the same or similar title, and appeared in "The Boston Book" in 1850. The article on Amos Bronson Alcott was written for the "New American Cyclopedia" in 1858. Emerson's address entitled "The Right Hand of Fellowship," and his addresses at the Japanese Banquet, the Froude Dinner and the Bryant Festival, are all important and worthy of preservation. Previous editors have reprinted Emerson on Carlyle's "Past and Present," but have overlooked his Review of Carlyle's "French Revolution."

During the years 1840 to 1844 Emerson contributed liberally to "The Dial," a quarterly magazine published in Boston. More than seventy-five pieces of Emerson's writings, including essays, poems and reviews, appeared in this magazine during the four years of its existence, and this material has been largely drawn upon, but not exhausted by the various Emerson editors. In this present volume we have reprinted from "The Dial" all of the papers omitted by previous editors, and they are thirty-two in number.

Included in this volume are six poems that have not been reprinted since their first appearance in the early annuals where they were first published. A number of Emerson's letters conclude this volume, two of them being of special importance.

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