Bibliography

Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, 1836.

Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1838.

Essays - I series,. Boston, 1841.

Essays (Preface by THOMAS CARLYLE), London, 1841.

The Method of Nature, an oration. Massachusetts, 1841.

Address in the Court-House, in Concord. Massachusetts, 1844.

Essays - II series. Boston, 1844.

Man, the reformer, a lecture. 1844.

Man Thinhing, an oration. 1844.

Representative Men - Lectures. Boston, 1844.

The Young American. London, 1844.

Essays. Lectures and Orations. London, 1844.

English Traits. London, 1856.

The conduct of Life. London, 1860.

May day and other pieces (poems). Massachusetts, 1867.

Society and Solitude. London, 1870.

Culture, Behaviour, Beauty. Massachusetts, 1876.

Letters and social aims. United States, 1876.

Power- Vower, Wealth, Illusions. Boston, 1876.

Miscellanies. Massachusetts, 1876.

Books, Arts, Eloquence. Massachusetts, 1877.

Friendship, Domestic Life. Massachusetts, 1877.

Success, Greatness, Immortality. Massachusetts, 1877.

Fortune of the Republic - Lecture. Massachusetts, 1879.

The senses and the Soul: two essays. London, 1884.

Edizione completa defle opere per il centenario, con introduzione biografica e note a cura di Edward Waldo Emerson, 12 voll., Boston, 1903-1904.

Journals of R. W. Emerson, with Annotations, edited by E. W. Emerson e Waldo Emerson Forbes, 10 voll., Boston 1909-1914.

Letters, a cura di R. L. RUSK, 1939; Complete Essays, edited by B. ATKINSON, 1940; The Poems, edited by Q. UNTERMEYER, 1945.
Recent Editions

Emerson in His Journals--Selected and edited by Joel Porte (Cambridge, Ma. - London: Harvard University Press, 1982).

Essays : First and Second Series , Douglas Crase (Illustrator), Vintage Books; 1990.
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Series) , Brooks Atkinson (Editor), 1992.

The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Glen M. Johnson (Editor), 1994.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : Collected Poems and Translations , Paul Kane (Editor), Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 1994.

Representative Men, Pamela Schirmeister (Editor), New York 1995.

Essays and Poems, Selected and introduced by Tony Tanner, Christopher Bigsby (Cons. Editor), Everyman Paperback Classics, London 1995.

Emerson's Antislavery Writings , Len Gougeon (Editor), Joel Myerson (Editor), Yale Univ. Press, 1995.

The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by J. Myerson, Columbia University Press, 1998.

Works by Others: Biography, Commentary, Analysis

G. W. Cooke, R. W. Emerson; His Life, Writings and Philosophy, Boston 1881.
J. E. Cabot, A memoir of R. W. Emerson, 2 voll., Boston 1887.
G. W. Cooke, Bibiography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston 1908.
O. W. Firkins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston 1915.
R. L. Rusk, The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, New York 1969.
O. W. Allen, Waldo Emerson: A Biography, New York 1981.
R. D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1995.

Octavius B. Frothingham, Transcendentalism in New England. A History, New York 1876.
H.D. Gray, Emerson: A Statement of New England Trascendentalism as Expressed in the Philosophy of Its Chief Exponent (1917; rist. 1958).
N. Foerster, Nature in American Literature: Studies in the Motern View of Nature, New York 1923.
F.I. Carpenter, Emerson and Asia, New York 1930.
F.O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, New York 1941 (trad. it., Rinascimento americano, Torino 1954).
K.W. Cameron, Emerson the Essayst, 2 volì., Raleigh, N.C., 1945.
V.C. Hopkins, Spires of Form: A Study of Emerson's Aesthetic Theorv, Cambridge, Mass., 1951.
S. Paul, Emerson's Angie of Vision: Man and Nature in Amencan Experience, Cambridge, Mass., 1952.
S.E. Whichter, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life ofRalph Waldo Emerson, Philadelphia 1953.
R.W.B. Lewis, The American Adam. Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition in the Nineteenth Centurv, Chicago 1955.
P.Miller. «From Edwards to Emerson», in Errand into the Wilderness, Cambridge, Mass., 1956.
F.Stovall, «Emerson», in Eight American Authors: A Review of Research and Criticism, New York 1956.
V. L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought : The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800- 1860, New York 1966.
M.R. Konvitz (a cura di), The Recognition of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Criticism since 1937, Ann Arbor 1972.
J.Duncan, The Power and Form of Emerson's Thought, New York 1973.
E. Wagenknecht, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Portrait of a Balanced Soul, New York 1974.
H.H. Waggoner, Emerson as Poet, Princeton 1974.
W.I. Scheick, The Slender Word: Emerson's Artistrv in Prose, Knoxville, Tenn., 1978.
M.M. Sealts - A. R. Ferguson (a cura di), Emerson's «Nature». Origins, Growth, Meaning, Carbondale, Ill., 1979.
L. Ziff, Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America, New York 1981.
J. F. Gardner, American Heralds of the Spirit: Emerson, Withman, and Melville, 1991
A. Versilius, American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions, Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
R. K. Hudnut, The Aesthetics of R. W. Emerson: The Materials of His Poetry, 1996.
C. Baker, Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait, 1996.
J. Myerson, The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, New York 1997.

Opere di e su Emerson in Italiano

R. W. Emerson, Il trascendentalista e altri saggi scelti, a cura di R. Mussapi, Milano 1989
R. W. Emerson, Natura e altri saggi, a cura di Tommaso Pisanti, Milano 1990.
R. W. Emerson, Teologia e natura, a cura di Pier Cesare Bori, Genova 1991.
R. W. Emerson, Saggi,a cura di P. Bertolucci, Torino 1962.
R. W. Emerson, Diario (1820-1876), a cura di V. Amoruso, Venezia 1963.
R. W. Emerson, Gli uomini rappresentativi, a cura di A. Biancotti, Torino 1944.
R. Anzilotti, Emerson in Italia, in "Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate", 3 (1958).
M. T. De Majo, La fortuna di Ralph Waldo Emerson in Italia, in «Studi americani», 12 (1966).
Per i contributi critici si veda il Repertorio bibliografico della letteratura americana in Italia, a cura del Centro di Studi Americani, sotto la direzione di B. Tedeschini Lalli, Roma 1966ss.
Su Emerson «dantista»: T. Pisanti, Dantismo americano, Napoli 1979, pp. 23 ss. e alla voce Emerson, in Enciclopedia Dantesca, Roma 1970 SS.
Per comprendere il contesto storico-culturale in cui si svolge il pensiero di Emerson: Vernon Louis Parrington, Storia della cultura americana, vol. II, La rivoluzione romantica: 1800-1860, Torino 1969 (cfr. soprattutto i capitoli relativi all' Unitarianismo, al Trascendentalismo, allo stesso Emerson, a Thoreau, ecc.).
Di grande utilità può essere un'altra opera di carattere generale: Cornel West, La filosofia americana, Roma 1997 (titolo originale: The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism, 1989). L'Autore dedica il primo capitolo ad Emerson.
Sul versante della filosofia politica e per comprendere l'influenza esercitata da Emerson sulla cultura politca americana, si veda: Nadia Urbinati, Individualismo democratico. Emerson, Dewey e la cultura politica americana, Roma 1997.