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The most comprehensive collection ever assembled gathers every poem Emerson published during his lifetime along with the best of the unpublished verse from his manuscripts, journals, and notebooks to offer readers for the first time the full range of his astonishing poetry. Includes poems hitherto available only in specialized scholarly versions, as well as revealing translations of mystical, sensuous Persian poems and of Dante's "Vita Nuova."

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• Published on: 1994-08-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

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From Publishers Weekly
Even those not well acquainted with the work of Emerson, New England essayist and procreative spark of the Transcendentalist movement, will find much to savor in this exhaustive, sensitive compilation. The poems chart the growth of a uniquely American sensibility, from the impressionable boy who toyed romantically with verse to the eloquent man who witnessed with "joyful eye" the "genius of the whole." In his autobiographical laments, particularly "Threnody," one sees how painfully the deaths of Emerson's first wife and first-born son affected him. Of great interest also are his gentlemanly versions of Dante. But the crowning moment of the collection comes when Emerson steeps himself in the poetry of Persian mystics. (His translations illustrate more the intense resonance he felt with the rapturous manner of the poet Hafiz, and less his mastery of poetic form.) While the voices of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson and others are periodically visible, the profound influence of the exotic saturates his every word. This welcome collection offers up poetic reiterations of Emerson's more popular essays, lyricizes Transcendentalism's celebration of the sublime in the human, and serves to re-open the case for Emerson as a poet. An introduction would have served readers well.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
This claims to be the most comprehensive volume of Emerson's poetry ever published. Bold words, but considering both the publisher's penchant for accuracy and a compilation and textual notes by Harold Bloom and Paul Kane, one could easily believe it. The text includes all of Emerson's published works plus unpublished material gleaned from his journals and notebooks.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
Color, Taste, And Smell, Smaragdus, Sugar, And Musk
Quatrain
For Two Rewards, & Nought Beside
I Read On The Porch Of A Palace Bold
Two Things
Whilst I Disdain The Populace
Song Of Seid Nimetollah Of Kuhistan
Bird Conversations, Sels.
Body And Soul
O'er The Garden Water Goes The Wind Alone
Shah Sanschar, Whose Lowest Slave
To The Shah (1)
To The Shah (2)
'tis Heavy Odds
For Pearls, Plunge In The Sea
Only Thee Things Lengthen Life
Teach Your Child To Earn His Meal
Vita Nuova
While Roses Bloomed Along The Plain
The Last Farewell
Ah Strange Strange Strange
And When I Am Entombed In My Place
At Sea, September 1833
Bard Or Dunce Is Blest, But Hard
Do That Which You Can Do
Few Are Free
The Future
I Sat Upon The Ground
I Use The Knife
I Will Not Hesitate To Speak The Word
In This Sour World, O Summerwind
It Takes Philosopher Or Fool
Look Danger In The Eye It Vanishes
None Spares Another Yet It Pleases Me
O What Is Heaven But The Fellowship
On Bravely Through The Sunshine & The Showers
Rex
S.r.
The Sea Reflects The Rosy Sky
See Yonder Leafless Trees Against The Sky
The Simple People Each With Basket Or Tool
The Sun Is The Sole Inconsumable Fire
Tell Men What They Knew Before
There Is No Evil But Can Speak
Van Buren
What Is It To Sail
A.h.
The Adirondacs; A Journal
Ah! Not To Me These Dreams Belong
All That Thy Virgin Soul Can Ask Be Thine
All The Great & Good
All Things Rehearse
Alphonso Of Castille
Always Day & Night
The Amulet
An Ancient Drop Of Feudal Blood
An Ancient Lady Who Dwelt In Rome
And He Like Me Is Not Too Proud
And Hungry Debt Besieged My Door
And I Do Waste My Time
And Man Of Wit & Mark
And Rival Coxcombs With Enamored Stare
And The Best Gift Of God
And Though He Dearly Prized The Bards Of Fame
The Apology
April
The Archangel Hope
Around The Man Who Seeks A Noble End
Art
Artist
As I Walked In The Wood
As The Drop Feeds Its Fated Flower
Ask Not Treasures From His Store
The Asmodaean Feat Be Mine
Astraea (2)
At Last The Poet Spoke
At Plymouth In The Friendly Crowd
The Atom Displaces All Atoms Beside
Atom From Atom Yawns As Far
Bacchus
Be Of Good Cheer, Brave Spirit; Steadfastly
Beauty
The Bell
Bended To Fops Who Bent To Him
Berrying
The Best Of Life Is Presence Of A Muse
The Bird Was Gone -- The Ghastly Trees
The Blackbird's Song The Blackbird's Song
Blight
Bluebeard
The Bohemian Hymn
Borrow Urania's Subtile Wings
Boston
Boston Hymn; Read In Music Hall, January 1, 1863
Botanist
Brahma
The Brave Empedocles Defying Fools
Brother, No Decrepitude
Burn Your Literary Verses
But As This Fugitive Sunlight
But God Will Keep His Promise Yet
But If Thou Do Thy Best
But Nature Whistled With All Her Winds
But Never Yet The Man Was Found
But O To See His Solar Eyes
By Art, By Music, Overthrilled
By Kinds I Keep My Kinds In Check
By The Unacknowledged Tie
Casella
Character; Epigram
The Chartist's Complaint
Chladni Strewed On Glass The Sand
The Civil World Will Much Forgive
Climacteric
Cloud Upon Cloud (1)
Cloud Upon Cloud (2)
The Coil Of Space The Cones Of Light
Coin The Daydawn Into Lines
Comfort With A Purring Cat
Compensation (1)
Compensation (2)
Comrade Of The Snow & Wind
The Comrade Or The Book Is Good
The Coral Worm Beneath The Sea
Cosmos
The Crowning Hour When Bodies Vie With Souls
Culture
Cupido
A Dangerous Gift & Grace Is Mine
The Day's Ration
Days
The Days Pass Over Me
Dear Are The Pleasant Memories
Dear Ellen,many A Golden Year
The Dervish Whined To Said
Dirge (1)
The Discontent Poet; A Masque
Divine Interpreters! I Accept
Dost Thou Not Hear Me Ellen
A Dull Uncertain Brain
Dust Unto Dust! And Shall No More Be Said
Each And [or, In] All
The Earth
Easy To Match What Others Do
Elizabeth Hoar
The Enchanter
Enough Is Done Highminded Friend Go Sleep
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Epigram
Eros (1)
Etienne De La Boece
Eve Roved In Paradise, I've Heard
Ever The Rock Of Ages Melts
Excelsior
Experience
Fable: The Mountain And The Squirrel
Fame
Far Seen The River Glides Below
Fate
Fate (3)
Fine Presentiments Controlled Him
For Deathless Powers To Verse Belong
For Every God
For Genius Made His Cabin Wide
For Joy & Beauty Planted It
For Lucifer, That Old Athlete
For Lyra Yet Shall Be The Pole
For Nature True & Like In Every Place
For That A Man Is A Mark
For What Need I Of Book Or Priest
Forbearance
Forebore The Ant Hill, Shunned To Read
Forerunners
Forester
Fragments On The Poet And The Poetic Gift
Fragments On The Poet And The Poetic Gift
Freedom
Friends To Me Are Frozen Wine
Friendship
From A Far Mountain Creeping Down
From Frodmer's Drama 'the Friends'
From High To Higher Forces
From Nature's Beginning
From The Stores Of Eldest Matter
Gardener
The Genial Spark The Poet Felt
Gentle Spring Has Charmed The Earth
Give All To Love
Go If Thou Wilt Ambrosial Flower
Go Into The Garden
Go Out Into Nature And Plant Trees
God Only Knew How Saadi Dined
God The Lord Save Massachusetts
God's Altar
Good Charles The Springs Adorer
Good Hope
Good-bye
Grace
Guy
Hafiz
Hamatreya
Hard
The Harp
He Whom God Had Thus Preferred
He Could Condense Cerulean Ether
He Lives Not Who Can Refuse Me
He Loved To Watch & Wake
He Must Have
He Walked The Streets Of Great New York
Hearst Thou, Sweet Spirit, Thou Hast Heard Before
Heartily Heartily Sing
Heartily Heartily
The Heavy Blue Chain
Heri, Cras, Hodie
Hermione
Heroism
His Instant Thought A Poet Spoke
History & Prophecy Are Alike
Hold Of The Maker, Not The Made
Holidays
Honor Bright O Muse
Horoscope
The House
How Drearily In College Hall
The Humble-bee
The Husband Has The Nearest Acres
Hush!
Hymn Sung At The Second Church, Boston ... Ordination Of Rev. Chandler
Hymn: 13, Written In Concord Sept. 1814
Hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument
I Am Alone. Sad Is My Solitude
I Am An Exile From My Home; Heavenly
I Am Not Black In My Mind
I Am The Owner Of The Sphere
I Call Her Beautiful; -- She Says
I Cane Not Whither I Go
I Cannot Find A Place So Lonely
I Grieve That Better Souls Than Mine
I Have An Arrow That Can Find Its Mark
I Have Found A Nobler Love
I Have No Brothers And No Peers
I Have Supped With The Gods Tonight
I Know The Appointed Hour
I Leave The Book, I Leave The Wine
I Live Among Ideal Men
I Must Not Borrow Light
I Never Knew But One
I Spread My Glorious Sail
I To My Garden Went
I Wear No Badge; No Tinsel Star
I Will Not Live Out Of Me
I've Found The Dainty Malice Out
Idealism
If Bright The Sun, He Tarries
If Curses Be The Wages Of Love
If He Go Apart
If Thy Body Pine
If Wishes Would Carry Me Over The Land
Illusions Like The Tints Of Pearl
In Dreamy Woods, What Forms Abound
In Memoriam; E.b.e.
Initial, Daemonic, And Celestial Love: 1. The Initial Love
Initial, Daemonic, And Celestial Love: 2. Daemonic And Celestial Love
Initial, Daemonic, And Celestial Love: 3
Inscription For A Well In Memory Of The Martyrs Of The War
Inspired We Must Forget Our Books
Intellect
Intellect
Is Jove Immortal
Is The Pace Of Nature Slow?
James Russell Lowell
Kind & Holy Were The Words
King
'know Thyself'
The Land Was All Electric
Leave Me Fear! Thy Throbs Are Base
Let Not Conceited Sages Laugh Loud
A Letter
Letters (1)
Letters (2)
Life
Life Is Great
Like Vaulters In The Circus Round
Limits
Lines On The Death Of Miss M.b. Farnham
Lines To Ellen
Loss And Gain
Love (1)
Love (2)
Love And Thought
Lover's Petition
The Low December Vault In June Be Up-lifted High
Maia
Maiden Speech Of The Aeolian Harp
Manners
Mask Thy Wisdom With Delight
May
May-day
Memory
Merlin's Song
Merlin: 1
Merlin: 2
Merops
The Miracle
Mithridates
Monadnoc
Monadnock From Afar
More Sweet Than My Refrain
Motto To 'circles'
Motto To 'considerations By The Way'
Motto To 'fate'
Motto To 'gifts'
Motto To 'illusions'
Motto To 'intellect'
Motto To 'nature'
Motto To 'nature'
Motto To 'new England Reformers'
Motto To 'nominalist And Realist'
Motto To 'power'
Motto To 'prudence'
Motto To 'the Poet'
Mottoes To 'history'
A Mountain Grave
The Muse
Music
Musketaquid
My Days Roll By Me Like A Train Of Dreams
My Garden
My Thoughts
Nantasket
Nature (2)
Nature (3)
Nature In Leasts
Nature Saith
Nature Says
Nature Will Not Lose
Nature: 1
Nature: 2
Natures Web Star Broidered
Nemesis
New England Capitalist
Night In June
No Fate, Save By The Victim's Fault, Is Low
No Song So Tuneful, Quoth The Fox
Northman
The Nun's Aspiration
O Boston City Lecture-hearing
O Sun! Take Off Thy Hoods Of Clouds
O What Have To To Do
October
Ode Inscribed To W.h. Channing
Ode Sung In The Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
Ode To Beauty
Oil & Wine
Old Age
On A Raisin Stone
On That Night The Poet Went
On The Chamber, On The Stairs
On The Death Of Mr. John Haskins
On Thee God Has Conferred
Once The Priest
One Hand Washes The Other
One Night He Dreamed Of A Palace Fair
Orator
Original - 'apropos'
Painting And Sculpture
A Pair Of Crystal Eyes Will Lead Me
Pan
The Panoply Of Paradise Is Mine
Papas Blondine
The Park
Parks And Ponds
The Past
Pedants All
Perhaps Thy Lot In Life Is Higher
Pericles
Peter's Field
Philosopher
The Pilgrims
Poem On Eloquence By R.w. Emerson
Poem, Spoken Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, August, 1934
Poet
Poet
A Poet Is At Home
Poet Of Poets
Poets Are Colorpots
Politics
Pour The Wine! Pour The Wine!
Power
Prayer
The Problem
Proteus
A Puff Of Air Or Dry Or Damp
Put In, Drive Home The Sightless Wedges
Quatrain: Fate
Quatrain: Nature
Quoth Saadi, When I Stood Before
The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is The Flower?
Riches
The River
The Romany Girl
Roomy Eternity
Rubies
The Rules To Men Made Evident
S.h.
Saadi
Saadi Held The Muse In Awe
Saadi Loved The New & Old
Sacrifice
Samson Stark At Dagon's Knee
Scholar Is A Ball Thats Spent
A Score Of Airy Miles Will Smooth
Seashore (1)
Seashore (2)
Security
See How Romance Adheres
Seemed To Me -- Never Maid
Seemed, Tho' The Soft Sheen All Enchants
Seyd Planted Where The Deluge Ploughed
Shakespeare
Shall The Muse Sing For Thousands & Not Sing
She Had Wealth Of Mornings In Her Year
She Never Comes To Me
She Paints With White & Red The Moors
She Walked In Flowers Around My Field
A Shout To The Shepherds
Shun Passion, Fold The Hands Of Thrift
Silence
Since The Devil Hopping On
The Skeptic
The Snow-storm
Softens The Air So Cold & Rude
Solar Insect On The Wing
Solution
Song
Song Of Nature
Song Of Taliesin
South Wind
The Sparrow Is Rich In Her Nest
The Sphinx
Spices In Plants That Run
The Spirits Of The Wise, Sit On The Clouds
Spiritual Laws
St. Augustine
Stars See Copernicus
Stout Sparta Shrined The God Of Laughter
Such Another Peerless Queen
The Sun Athwart The Cloud Thought It No Sin
Sursum Corda
Suum Cuique (1)
Suum Cuique (2)
Tact
Teach Me I Am Forgotten By The Dead
Teach Me Your Mood, O Patient Stars!
Terminus (1)
Terminus (2)
The Test
Thank The Gods Thy Governors
Thanks To Those Who Go & Come
That Wandering Fire To Me Appears
Thermometer
These Trees Like Tho'ts That To Visions Congeal
'they Enjoy A Tearless Age'
Thine Eyes Still Shined For Me, Though Far
Things Oft Miscalling, As The Hen
Think Not The Gods Receive Thy Prayer
This Shining Hour Is An Edifice
This World Is Tedious
Thou Shalt Make Thy House
The Three Dimensions
Threnody
The Titmouse
To Ellen
To Ellen, At The South
To Eva
To Every Creature
To J. W.
To Rhea
To The Clock
To The Mizen, The Main, & The Fore
To Transmute Crime To Wisdom, & To Stem
Today
Too Late The Anxious Fire Came
Traitors Tho' Plumed & Steel Equipped
Trimountain
Turtle In Swamp
Two Rivers
Una
Unity
Uriel
Use Will In Man New Grace Reveal
Vain Against Him Were Hostile Blows
Valedictory Poem
The Visit
Voluntaries
Waldeinsamkeit
Walden
Walden Wood
The Walk
Was Never Was Not, & Still Will Be
Water
The Waterfall
Waves
We Sauntered Amidst Miracles
Wealth
Webster
What All The Books Of Ages Paint, I Have
What Are All The Flowers
What Avails It Me
What Flowing Central Forces, Say
What From This Barren Being Do We Reap
When Devils Bite
When Jane Was Absent Edgar's Eye
When Thou Sittest Moping
When Thy Soul
When Wrath & Terror Changed Jove's Regal Port
Where Art Thou
Where Is Skrymir? Giant Skrymir
Where The Fungus Broad & Red
Whoso Alas Is Young
Why Honor The New Men
Why Should I Live
William Does Thy Frigid Soul
William Rufus And The Jew
The Winds Are Cold, The Days Are Dark
Wisp & Meteor Nightly Falling
With The Key Of The Secret He Marches Faster
Woodnotes: 1, 1
Woodnotes: 1, 2
Woodnotes: 1, 3
Woodnotes: 1, 4
Woodnotes: 2
Woods; A Prose Sonnet
The World-soul
Worship
Would You Know What Joy Is Hid
Written At Rome
Written In A Volume Of Goethe
Written In Naples, March, 1833
Written In Sickness
Xenophanes
Ye Have Grace
Yet Sometime To The Sorrow Stricken
You Shall Not Love Me For What Daily Spends
The Eternal Watcher, Who Doth Wake
Wilt Thou Life's Best Elixir Drain?
Arabian Ballad
Ah, Could I Hide Me In My Song
Alas! Till Now I Had Not Known
All Day The Rain
Alms
And Had Hafiz
And Since Round Lines Are Drawn
Art Thou Wise, Four Things Resign
At The Last Day, Men Shall Wear
Blame Me Not Thou Hoarse Preacher
Boy Bring The Bowl Full Of Wine
Bring Wine Release Me
The Builder Of Heaven
By Breath Of Beds Of Roses Drawn
The Chemist Of Love
Come Let Us Strew Roses
Come! -- The Palace Of Heaven Rests On Aery Pillars
Dearest, Where Thy Shadow Falls
Desire No Bread, Forsake The Guest Hall Of Earth
Drink Till The Turbans Are All Unbound
Drink Wine, And The Heaven
Drink, Hear My Counsel, My Son, That The World Fret Thee Not
Early After The Night Long Revel
Epitaph
Fair Fall Thy Soft Heart!
Fit For The Pleiads' Azure Chord
For His Constant Dwelling Place Has Hafiz
Free Thyself From Wo
Friendship
Ghaselle
Good Is What Goes On The Road Of Nature
Hafiz Since On The World
Hafiz Thou Art From Eternity
Has Thine Enemy Slandered Thy House
Hear What The Glass Will Tell Thee
High Heart, O Hafiz! Though Not Thine
His Learning Truly Lifted Hafiz To Heaven
I Am: What I Am
I Batter The Wheel Of Heaven
I Have Hoarded No Treasure
I Know This Perilous Love-lane
I Never Went Out Of My Country
I Said To Heaven That Glowed Above
I Said To The East Wind
I Shall Go From My Sickbed To Heaven
I Will Be Drunk And Down With Wine
If My Darling Should Depart
If Thy Darling Favor Thee
In Bounding Youth The Night & Rain
In The Kingdom Of Poesy Hafiz Waves Like A Banner
In Thy Holiday Of Life
It Is Certain That Who His Mind
Knowst Thou The Luck The Friends Face To Face
Lament Not, O Hafiz, The Distribution
Lo! Where From Heaven's High Roof
Loose The Knots Of The Heart; Never Think On Thy Fate
Many Our Needs, Yet We Spare Prayers
The Ninefold Table Of Heaven
No Physician Has A Balsam For My Two
Novice, Hear Me What I Say
Now Tells The Flower
O Follow The Sonnet's Flight
O Friend Blame Not Hafiz
O Hafiz! Speak Not Of Thy Need
O Hafiz, Give Me Thought
Ode
Ode: 13
On Prince Or Bride No Diamond Stone
Our Shah's Counsel Is The Efflux
Out Of The East, And Out Of The West, No Man Understands Me
The Phoenix
Plunge In Yon Angry Waves
Prince The Ball Of Heaven Should
Reach Me Wine. No Counsel Weakens The Conclusion Of The Lot
The Red Rose Blooms
The Roguish Wind And I
Ruler After Word & Thought
Secretly To Love
See & Hear The Fraud, The Malice Of The Change Of Fortune
See How The Roses Burn!
Should I Shed My Tears
Since You Set No Worth On The Heart
So Long As There's A Trace
Spare Thou Neither Time Nor Blood For Thy Friend
Stand Up, That We May Sacrifice The Soul
A Stately Bride Is The Shining World
Take My Heart In Thy Hand, O Beautiful Boy Of Schiraz!
There Resides In The Grieving
They Say, Through Patience, Chalk
They Strew In The Path Of Kings And Czars
This Effervescing Gentleman Who Despises A Secret
Thou Who With Thy Long Hair
Thousand Dangers Of Ruin Has The Street Of Love
Thy Poems Hafiz Shame The Rose Leaves
Thy Songs O Hafiz
'tis Writ On Paradise's Gate
To Be Wise The Dull Brain So Earnestly Throbs
To The Shah
To Whom A Glass Full Of Red Wine
The Treacherous Wind Pipes A Lewd Song
The Understanding's Copper Coin
Untruth Is Become The Mode
The Way Of Love Is Unlimited
We Wish Like The Glass
We Would Do Nought But Good
What Lovelier Forms Things Wear
When In Eternity The Light
Where O Where Is The Message Which Today
Who Compares A Poem
Who Dedicates Himself To The Glass
Who Ever Suffered As I From Separation?
Who Gave Thy Cheek The Mixed Tint
Who Royally Bedded
Wine Resembles The Lord Jesus
The World Is A Bride Superbly Dressed
Yet All Comes Out Of This, The One Door
The Flute
A Friend Is He, Who, Hunted As A Foe
The Exile
Madrigal: 51
Madrigal: 52
Sonnet
Sonnet
Sweet, Sweet Is Sleep, -- Ah! Sweeter, To Be Stone
Each Spot Where Tulips Prank Their State
He Who Has A Thousand Friends Has Not A Friend To Spare
On Earth's Wide Thoroughfares Below
On Two Days It Steads Not To Run From Thy Grave
Unbar The Door, Since The Opener Art
Fortune And Hope! I've Made My Port
Had I The World For My Enemy
In Senahar, My First Born Sleeps
The Pain Of Love's A Better Fate
Salve Senescentem
Who Loves His Friend With His Heart Of Hearts
The Principle Of All Things; Entrails Made
Borrowing
Fooled Thou Must Be, Though Wisest Of The Wise
Go Boldly Forth, And Feast On Being's Banquet
The Secret That Should Not Be Blown
The Soul
Sunshine Was He
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Customer Reviews

The poetry of mind is only sometimes soulful
The aphoristic, enigmatic, cryptic, verse of Emerson is collected here in its entirety. Much comes from his notebooks and journals. Emerson was criticized among others by Mathew Arnold for lacking ' the soul' of the poet. And it is true that the music of his verse is often a rough, awkward, intellectual one. And that what is memorable in it comes as a line here or there which could well come from his essays.
Nonetheless there are memorable lines and a few poems which enter the heart and mind, perhaps because once read in childhood anthology they remain as part of one's inner landscape. For me Emerson as a poet is primarily isolated like the most memorable Emerson of all,
" By the rude bridge/ that arched the flood/ their flag the April breeze unfurled /Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired' "The shot heard round the world".
In another sense Emerson appreciated Poetry and was the patron , and capable of recognizing the great value of , arguably, the ur- American poet, Whitman.
Reading the poetry is often a quite complicated intellectual exercise. But it is also one which yields new ideas, though perhaps those ideas are not felt as deeply as poetry should make us feel.