Title List to the Emerson Library of Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1915-2000)

A gift of Merton M. Sealts, Jr.  to the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

By Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• The collected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson / introductions and notes by Robert E. Spiller ; text established by Alfred R. Ferguson

• The complete sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Albert J. von Frank; introduction by David M. Robinson

• The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in six volumes

• The conduct of life: and the natural history of intellect and other papers / by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle / edited by Joseph Slater  

• Dante’s Vita nuova / translated by Ralph Waldo Emerson; edited by J. Chesley Mathews  

• Early lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Stephen E. Whicher and Robert E. Spiller  

• Emerson in his journals / selected and edited by Joel Porte

• Emerson’s antislavery writings / Ralph Waldo Emerson; edited by Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson  

• Emerson’s Nature: origin, growth, meaning / edited by Merton M. Sealts, Jr. and Alfred R. Ferguson

• English traits; and, Lectures and biographical sketches / by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Essays: first and second series / by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Journals and miscellaneous notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by William H. Gilman [and others]

• Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations / edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes  

• The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Ralph L. Rusk

• Nature (1836) / by Ralph Waldo Emerson; edited with an introduction, index-concordance and bibliographical appendices by Kenneth Walter Cameron

• Nature, addresses, and lectures : and letters and social aims / by Ralph Waldo Emerson  

• The poetry notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Ralph H. Orth ... [et al.]

• Representative men and miscellanies / by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Society and solitude and Poems / by Ralph Waldo Emerson  

• The topical notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Susan Sutton Smith

• Young Emerson speaks: unpublished discourses on many subjects / edited by Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr.

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• The aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson: the materials and methods of his poetry / Robert K. Hudnut

• American thought from Puritanism to pragmatism and beyond / by Woodbridge Riley

• American transcendentalism: an anthology of criticism / edited by Brian M. Barbour

• Authoritarianism and corporatism in Latin America / James M. Malloy, editor

• Boston: a guide book / by Edwin M. Bacon

• Brook Farm: its members, scholars and visitors / by Lindsay Swift; introduction by Joseph Schiffman

• Carlyle and Emerson, their long debate / Kenneth Marc Harris

• City of the west: Emerson, American, and urban metaphor / by Michael H. Cowan

• Coleridge’s American disciples: the selected correspondence of James Marsh / Edited by John J. Duffy

• The concept of nature in nineteenth-century English poetry / by Joseph Warren Beach

• Concord: climate for freedom / by Ruth R. Wheeler

• Confrontations: studies in the intellectual and literary relations between Germany, England, and the United States during the nineteenth century / by René Wellek

• The controversy over evolution in New England 1859-1873 / Bert James Loewenberg

• Critical essays on American transcendentalism / [compiled by] Philip F. Gura and Joel Myerson

• Critical studies in Arnold, Emerson, and Newman / by John Hicks, Ernest E. Sandeen, Alvan S. Ryan, with an introduction by Joseph E. Baker

• Diaries and letters of William Emerson, 1743-1776 : minister of the church in Concord, chaplain in the Revolutionary Army / arranged by Amelia Forbes Emerson

• A discourse on the latest form of infidelity : delivered at the request of the “Association of the Alumni of the Cambridge Theological School,” on the 19th of July, 1839, with notes / by Andrews Norton

• Emerson: a collection of critical essays / edited by Milton R. Konvitz and Stephen E. Whicher

• Emerson: a statement of New England transcendentalism as expressed in the philosophy of its chief exponent / by Henry David Gray

• Emerson among the eccentrics: a group portrait / by Carlos Baker; introduction and epilogue by James R. Mellow

• Emerson and skepticism: the cipher of the world / John Michael

• Emerson and the conduct of life: pragmatism and ethical purpose in the later work / David M. Robinson

• Emerson and the Orphic poet in America / R. A. Yoder

• Emerson as mythmaker / J. Russell Reaver

• Emerson as poet / Hyatt H. Waggoner

• Emerson centenary essays / edited by Joel Myerson

• An Emerson chronology / Albert J. von Frank

• Emerson handbook / by Frederic Ives Carpenter

• Emerson in Concord: a memoir; written for the “Social Circle” in Concord, Massachusetts / by Edward Waldo Emerson

• Emerson on race and history: an examination of English traits / by Philip L. Nicoloff

• Emerson on the scholar / Merton M. Sealts, Jr.

• Emerson on the soul / Jonathan Bishop

• Emerson: prophecy, metamorphosis, and influence: selected papers from the English Institute / edited with a foreword by David Levin

• Emerson, prospect and retrospect / edited by Joel Porte

• Emersonian circles: essays in honor of Joel Myerson / edited by Wesley T. Mott & Robert E. Burkholder

• Emerson’s angle of vision; man and nature in American experience / Sherman Paul

• Emerson’s demanding optimism / Gertrude Reif Hughes

• Emerson’s emergence: self and society in the transformation of New England, 1800-1845 / Mary Kupiec Cayton

• Emerson’s epistemology : the argument of the essays / David Van Leer

• Emerson’s fall : a new interpretation of the major essays / B.L. Packer

• Emerson’s first marriage / Henry F. Pommer

• Emerson’s impact on the British Isles and Canada / by William J. Sowder

• Emerson’s library / Walter Harding

• Emerson’s literary criticism / edited by Eric W. Carlson

• Emerson’s modernity and the example of Goethe / Gustaaf Van Cromphout

• Emerson’s Montaigne / by Charles Lowell Young

• Emerson’s Plutarch / Edmund G. Berry

• Emerson's romantic style / by Julie Ellison

• Emerson’s translation of Dante’s Vita nuova / by J. Chesley Mathews

• Essays in American and English literature presented to Bruce Robert McElderry, Jr. / edited by Max F. Schulz, with William D. Templeman and Charles R. Metzger

• Four makers of the American mind : Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville : a bicentennial tribute: new essays / by Robert E. Spiller ... [et al.]; edited and with a pref. by Thomas Edward Crawley

• Freedom and fate: an inner life of Ralph Waldo Emerson / Stephen E. Whicher ; introduction to the 2d ed. by Maurice J. Gonnaud

• The genius and character of Emerson: lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy / edited by F. B. Sanborn

• German culture in America: philosophical and literary influences, 1600-1900 / Henry A. Pochmann; with the assistance of Arthur R. Schultz and others

• The great chain of being: a study of the history of an idea / Arthur O. Lovejoy

• The heart of Thoreau’s journals / edited by Odell Shepard

• A Henry David Thoreau bibliography, 1908-1937 / by William White

• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Civil disobedience: a study guide / by Walter Harding

• Henry Whitney Bellows / Walter Donald Kring

• A history of the Dial (1840-1844) / by Joel Arthur Myerson

• The house of Emerson / Leonard Neufeldt

• The influence of Emerson / by Edwin D. Mead

• The intercourse between the soul and the body: which is supposed to take place either by physical influx, or by spiritual influx or by pre-established harmony / by Emanuel Swedenborg

• Journal / Henry D. Thoreau; John C. Broderick, general editor ; edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell ... [et al.]. 

• The letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson / edited by Edith E.W. Gregg; foreword by Gay Wilson Allen

• Liberals among the orthodox: Unitarian beginnings in New York City, 1819-1839 / Walter Donald Kring

• The liberating gods: Emerson on poets and poetry / by John Q. Anderson

• The life of Emerson / by Van Wyck Brooks

• The life of Lidian Jackson Emerson / by Ellen Tucker Emerson; edited by Delores Bird Carpenter

• Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson / by Richard Garnett

• Literary transcendentalism: style and vision in the American Renaissance

• The making of Walden: with the text of the first version / by J. Lyndon Shanley

• Margaret Fuller: American romantic: a selection from her writings and correspondence / Edited by Perry Miller

• Margaret Fuller: essays on American life and letters / Joel Myerson, editor

• A memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson / by James Elliot Cabot

• The Merrill checklist of Ralph Waldo Emerson / compiled by Alfred R. Ferguson

• Neighbor Thoreau’s critical humor / J. Golden Taylor

• New England transcendentalism and St. Louis Hegelianism : phases in the history of American idealism / by Henry A. Pochmann

• The new Thoreau handbook / Walter Harding, Michael Meyer

• On Emerson / edited by Edwin H. Cady and Louis J. Budd

• One first love: the letters of Ellen Louisa Tucker to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Edith W. Gregg

• The Orient in American transcendentalism: a study of Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott / by Arthur Christy

• The power and form of Emerson’s thought / Jeffrey L. Duncan

• Ralph Waldo Emerson / by O.W. Firkins

• Ralph Waldo Emerson / by Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Ralph Waldo Emerson / by George Edward Woodberry

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: a collection of critical essays / edited by Lawrence Buell

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: a descriptive bibliography / Joel Myerson

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: a profile / edited by Carl Bode

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: an interpretive essay / by Lewis Leary

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: days of encounter / John McAleer

• The reason, the understanding, and time / Arthur O. Lovejoy

• The recognition of Henry David Thoreau: selected criticism since 1848 / edited by Wendell Glick

• The recognition of Ralph Waldo Emerson : selected criticism since 1837 / edited by Milton R. Konvitz

• Representative man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in his time / Joel Porte

• Robert Owen’s American legacy: proceedings of the Robert Owen Bicentennial Conference / edited by Donald E. Pitzer

• Safely onward / Walter Donald Kring

• Selected writings / William Ellery Channing; edited by David Robinson

• Selected writings of the American transcendentalists / edited with an introduction by George Hochfield

• Self-education, or, The means and art of moral progress / translated [Elizabeth Palmer Peabody] from the French of M. le baron Degerando  

• Sheltering tree: a story of the friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amos Bronson Alcott / by Hubert H. Hoeltje

• Sketches from Concord and Appledore: Concord thirty years ago : Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier / by Frank Preston Stearns.

• The slender human word: Emerson’s artistry in prose / William J. Scheick

• Spires of form : a study of Emerson’s aesthetic theory / by Vivian C. Hopkins

• The strains of eloquence: Emerson and his sermons / Wesley T. Mott

• Studies in human time / by Georges Poulet ; translated by Elliott Coleman

• Studies in New England transcendentalism / by Harold Clarke Goddard

• “These sad but glorious days”: dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 / Margaret Fuller ; edited by Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith

• The Thoreau centennial: papers marking the observance in New York City of the one hundreth anniversary of the death of Henry David Thoreau / edited by Walter Harding.

• Thoreau discovers Emerson : a college reading record / by Hemmeth Walter Cameron.  

• A Thoreau handbook / Walter Harding

• Thoreau, man of Concord / edited by Walter Harding.

• Thoreau on writing / [compiled by] Eva M. Burkett and Joyce S. Steward.

• Three children of the universe: Emerson’s view of Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton / by William M. Wynkoop

• The trans-parent: sexual politics in the language of Emerson / Eric Cheyfitz

• Transcendentalism and its legacy, edited by Myron Simon and Thornton H. Parsons

• Transcendentalism as a social movement, 1830-1850 / Anne C. Rose

• Transcendentalism in New England : a history / Octavius Brooks Frothingham; introduction by Sydney E. Ahlstrom.

• The transcendentalist ministers: church reform in the New England Renaissance / by William R. Hutchison

• The transcendentalist revolt against materialism / edited with an introduction by George F. Whicher

• The Transcendentalists: a review of research and criticism / edited by Joel Myerson

• The transcendentalists: an anthology / [edited by] Perry Miller

• Uncollected writings: essays, addresses, poems, reviews, and letters / by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• An uneasy solitude : individual and society in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson / by Maurice Gonnaud ; translated by Lawrence Rosenwald

• Unitarian Christianity and other essays / William Ellery Channing ; edited, with an introduction, by Irving H. Bartlett

• The Unitarians and the universalists / David Robinson

• The variorum Walden / Henry David Thoreau; annotated and with an introduction by Walter Harding

• Virtue’s hero: Emerson, antislavery, and reform / Len Gougeon

• Walden, and Civil disobedience: authoritative texts, background, reviews, and essays in criticism / Henry David Thoreau; edited by Owen Thomas

• Walden: volatile truths / Martin Bickman

• Waldo Emerson: a biography / by Gay Wilson Allen

• The Western Thoreau centenary: selected papers / edited by J. Golden Taylor

• A world elsewhere: the place of style in American literature / Richard Poirier

• Young man Thoreau / Richard Lebeaux

For full information, please refer to the Henley Library Catalog 

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