Mikics's annotations are gracious, helpful, and genuinely illuminating. This is a 'reader's edition' in the truest sense. -- Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Impressive in its thoroughness... the author's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. -- Paul Kane, Vassar College David Mikics's The Annotated Emerson is the best possible introduction to Emerson's prose and poetry. -- Harold Bloom
David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston. Phillip Lopate is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs the graduate nonfiction program.
Mikics's annotations are gracious, helpful, and genuinely
illuminating. This is a 'reader's edition' in the truest sense.
*Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*
Impressive in its thoroughness… the author's enthusiasm for his
subject is infectious.
*Paul Kane, Vassar College*
David Mikics's The Annotated Emerson is the best possible
introduction to Emerson's prose and poetry.
*Harold Bloom*
The #1 essayist and pure prose stylist in U.S. literature is on
grand display in this lavish edition of essays, poems, and passages
from Emerson's voluminous journals. The neophyte entering the
Emersonian universe, as opposed to the scholar, is best served by
Mikics's careful annotations and cogent commentary surrounding
these selections, though even the most knowledgeable scholar would
benefit.
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
In his writing, Emerson favored fire imagery, and his own fiery
intellect brightens every page of The Annotated Emerson, a
wonderful new collection, meticulously annotated by David
Mikics...In the lush pages of The Annotated Emerson readers will
find that fire still warm, able to illuminate and sear.
*Cleveland Plain Dealer*
What a pleasure to have, in The Annotated Emerson, a lovely and
helpful version of many of Emerson's bests, gathered and annotated
by David Mikics and introduced by Phillip Lopate. This is in no way
Emerson lite. These are not shortcuts but rather a welcome frame
for Emerson's particular kind of difficulty. The book's
introductions curate the voluminous career, and the wide margins of
the pages, dappled with thoughtful notes, give the meditations
space to unfurl. This is a book that gives us each hope to approach
the "new yet unapproachable" Emerson. Any lay reader will find an
open door here. Those who already love Emerson and know him well
may find a few cherished things missing, but they may also find a
few things they didn't know they wanted to find.
*Barnes & Noble Review*
Editor Mikics has selected the best known of Emerson's works but
also includes excerpts from his journals, selections from
lesser-read books, and a number of his poems. The volume is
prefaced by a thoughtful foreword by Philip Lopate and a very
useful editor's introduction...All in all, this handsome edition
will be useful both to newcomers and to Emerson vets.
*Library Journal*
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote essays about Shakespeare, John Brown,
Stonehenge, Montaigne, best friend Henry David Thoreau, circles,
nature, and self-reliance. One of his most famous lines--"the shot
heard round the world" from his poem "Concord Hymn"--is still used
to describe singular events in sports and history. The Annotated
Emerson, edited by David Mikics, an English professor at the
University of Houston, explains language and allusions that may be
foreign to today's readers. By doing this, Mikics makes a great
American essayist, whom Phillip Lopate in his foreword calls a
"hero of intellectual labor," readily accessible to a new
generation.
*Boston Globe*
Copiously annotated, richly illustrated and handsomely bound, a
volume all lovers not just of literature but of freedom will want
on their shelves…[Emerson's] astute observations and generous
vision of the world within and without still have much to
teach.
*West Australian*
Mikics has put together a handsome edition of Emerson's most
popular and enduring work. First-time readers of Emerson will find
the collection useful because the annotations reference the common
occurrences of Emerson's attention and, along with the
illustrations, place Emerson's work in the context of the 19th
century. More-experienced readers of Emerson will value the many
annotations that reference his journals, letters, and other essays
not gathered here.
*Choice*
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