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PITHY QUOTE FROM Emerson: Collected Works

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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Volume 1: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, Chapter 1: "Nature"

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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-016-5

Language: English

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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Engraving from photograph, 1874, by Robert Woodbury Foss

List of Contents

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Introductions and notes by Robert E. Spiller et al. 7 vols. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971 - .


  • Vol. 1: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson. Introduction and notes by Robert E. Spiller. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
  • Vol. 2: Essays, First Series. Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr. Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979.
  • Vol. 3: Essays: Second Series. Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr. Historical Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983.
  • Vol. 4: Representative Men: Seven Lectures. Edited by Douglas Emory Wilson. Historical Introduction and Notes by Wallace E. Williams. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.
  • Vol. 5: English Traits. Edited by Douglas Emory Wilson. Historical Introduction by Philip Nicoloff. Notes by Robert E. Burkholder. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
  • Vol. 6: The Conduct of Life. Edited by Douglas Emory Wilson. Historical Introduction by Barbara L Packer. Notes by Joseph Slater. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
  • Vol. 7: Society and Solitude. Edited by Douglas Emory Wilson. Historical Introduction, Notes, and Parallel Passages by Ronald A. Bosco. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.


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