Abstract
With the possible exception of Evelyn Barish's study, this recent collection of scholarship stresses the theological Emerson. Appropriately, if also perhaps erroneously, this consensual view tends to overlook or slight the argument for a more scientific and neoplatonic Emerson as established in the latest major biography, Gay Wilson Allen's Waldo Emerson (1981). By and large, their most important scholarly debts are to the works of Lawrence Buell and Conrad Wright, who place Emerson more strictly in the context of his Puritan and Unitarian background. It is probably for this reason that the standard biography of Emerson listed in the Abbreviations to Works Frequently Cited of The Complete Sermons is not Allen's comprehensive volume but The
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