Emerson's Nature: Origin, Growth, MeaningMerton M. Sealts, Alfred Riggs Ferguson Southern Illinois University Press, 1979 - 225 pages This new printing adds Orestes A. Brownson's 1836 review of Nature and three essays representing Emerson scholarship of the 1970s: Merton M. Sealts, Jr., on "The Composition of Nature";Barry Wood's PMLA article of 1976 on Coleridgean elements in Nature;and Barbara Packer on "Emerson's Cosmogony in 'Prospects.'" The essays by Professors Sealts and Packer appear for the first time in this volume. |
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Emergency of Nature | 38 |
Contemporary Comments 18361841 | 74 |
SwedenborgJonathan Bayley | 106 |
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