Dr. M.R. Joshi’s off beat study of the poetry of Emerson is different from that of others in the sense that it presents the learned author’s independent perceptions in a confident and balanced manner. Highlighting Emerson’s personality and career, his attitude towards nature and man, his working philosophy, his religion, his Transcendentalism, the Oriental echoes in his poetry, and his style, the author succeeds in giving a fresh interpretation to these massive facts in readable language. The interpretations are clear and consistent and the conclusions well reasoned.