Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Documentary Volume

Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson

Gale Cengage Learning, 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 452 pages

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About the author

Joel Myerson (born 1945) is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. He has edited many books about the works of such American literary figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Documentary Volume; Bruccoli Clark Layman book; Volume 351 of Dictionary of literary biography, ISSN 1096-8547
• Editors: Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning, 2010
• ISBN: 0787681695, 9780787681692
• Length: 452 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / Reference