Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"This is the fust and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era's most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Best known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some 1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most important ideas were worked out in his lectures, they provide the best record we have of his evolving thought-and thus are a key to understanding his essays and other printed works." "Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson-the most experienced Emerson editors working today-these twenty-five addresses from 1833 to 1871 on American culture; literary theory and aesthetics; moral and, as Emerson called it, "intellectual" philosophy; and social and political reform collectively exemplify the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day. Book jacket."--Jacket.

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