Works

Works

• Poetry

Works Links

• The American Scholar
  
• The Method of Nature - 1841
  
• Literary Ethics
  
• The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson A comprehensive and growing Ralph Waldo Emerson site to offer "easy reading" via html, txt and palmpilot formats.
  
• Introductory Lecture on the Times
  
• Man the Reformer
  
• The Over-Soul
  
• The American Scholar - 1837
  
• The Lord's Supper The Lord's Supper (essay). Emerson explains the theological basis for his refusal to celebrate communion, a refusal that cost him his pastorate in the Unitarian church.
  
• The Conduct of Life (1860) Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions
  
• Concord Hymn Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836.
  
• Transcendentalism Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842.
  
• The Young American
  
• Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849)
  
• The Transcendentalist
  
• Emerson Texts Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher. This site contains HTML (web-readable) versions of many of Emerson's best-known essays, including a Search function to look for specific words, phrases, or quotations.
  
• Poet: An Essay The text of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, available for reading online. Divided into multiple pages with an introduction about the author.
  
• English Traits (1856) HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England.
  
• Poetry of Emerson - Atlantic Monthly November 1857 Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online presents a November 1857 article with four poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• The Sovereignty of Ethics A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.
  
• Emerson on Thoreau Emerson's eulogy for his friend Henry David Thoreau.
  
• Literature Network: Ralph Waldo Emerson Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature.
  
• Nature - 1836
  
• Mary Moody Emerson, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson's essay in honor of his aunt who helped to raise him, and who recent scholars have credited with much influence over his thinking. Originally presented to the Woman's Club in Boston, 1869.
  
• Friendship
  
• Self-Reliance
  
• The Transcendentalist - 1842
  
• Uncollected Prose Includes essays originally published in The Dial magazine, and the essay "The Lord's Supper."
  
• Love
  
• Search the Emerson Texts A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's including in this site.
  
• The Poet The Poet, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on one page for ease of reading and printing.
  
• Emerson Concordances Search Emerson texts (two here: Essays and The Transcendentalist).
  
• Worship
  
• The Method of Nature
  
• Thoreau A biographical essay by Emerson, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 1862.
  
• Essays: Second Series (1844)
  
• Divinity School Address - 1838
  
• Nature
  
• New England Reformers
  
• The Conservative
  
• Essays: First Series (1841)
  
• Self-Reliance An extract with a brief introduction and footnotes for a few of the less obvious references in the text.
  
• Divinity School Address Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838
  
• Representative Men (1850) (Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.)