Warner Berthoff, a professor emeritus of English at Harvard University, is the author of The Example of Melville and The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884-1919. He has edited a new edition of Emerson's Nature with an extensive critical introduction.

Warner Berthoff, a professor emeritus of English at Harvard University, is the author of The Example of Melville and The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884-1919. He has edited a new edition of Emerson's Nature with an extensive critical introduction.