This new printing adds Orestes A. Brownson's 1836 review of Nature and three essays representing Emerson scholarship of the 1970s: Merton M. Sealts, Jr., on ?The Composition of Nature”; Barry Wood's PMLA article of 1976 on Coleridgean elements in Nature; and Barbara Packer on ?Emerson's Cosmogony in ?Prospects.'” The essays by Professors Sealts and Packer appear for the first time in this volume.