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Libri antichi e moderni

Emerson

THE POEMS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Selected, and edited with a Commentary, by Louis Untermeyer

The Heritage Press, 1945

45,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1945
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Emerson
Editori
The Heritage Press
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

First Heritage Edition. Illustrated with waterolours by Richard and Doris Beer. 8vo, original linen covered boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and pictorially decorated in red and blue on the spine with a floral design and an American eagle xvi, 238 pp. A very good copy with mellowing to the boards.

Edizione: first heritage edition with pretty watercolors of concord and boston by richard and doris beer. prepared and edited with a commentary by louis untermeyer. "emerson is not only the philosopher of democracy but the poet of freedom. his themr is the integrity, the very sanctity, of the individual."- untermeyer. american poets series.<br> the first poem in the book is his most famous, the concord hymn which includes that famous line on the 'shot heard round the world.' emerson considered himself "more of a poet than anything else." <br> "by the rude bridge that arched the flood,<br> their flag to april's breeze unfurled,<br> here once the embattled farmers stood,<br> and fired the shot heard round the world."
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