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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations.

Up to now, the art of poetry has not been very well served by The Library of America. Only Walt Whitman had made a full one-volume niche for himself in that pantheon. While he surely deserves his place there, most of Whitman's readers would already have been supplied with Leaves of Grass, so the Library of America edition filled a ceremonial place on the bookshelf rather than a readerly need. It is quite otherwise with the three volumes reviewed here. Emerson's poetry, despite the sustained applause of agenda-setting critics, has been virtually unavailable for years, except the little that could be found in anthologies. A tour of New York book stores before the appearance of ...

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