Introduction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books

The Conduct of Life: Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions

Essays - First Series

History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, Art

Essays - Second Series

The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, New England Reformers

Nature

Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit, Prospects

Representative Men

Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Michel de Montaigne, William Shakespeare, Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

English Traits

Society and Solitude: Civilization, Art, Eloquence, Domestic Life, Farming, Works and Days, Books, Clubs, Courage, Success, Old Age

Letters and Social Aims

Poetry and Imagination, Social Aims, Eloquence, Resources, The Comic, Quotation and Originality, Progress of Culture, Persian Poetry, Inspiration, Greatness, Immortality

Poetry

Poems (1847)

May-Day and Other Pieces

May-Day, The Adirondacs, Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces, Nature and Life, Elements, Quatrains, Translations

Other Poems

Addresses and Lectures: The American Scholar, An Address in Divinity College, Literary Ethics, The Method of Nature, Man the Reformer, Lecture on The Times, The Conservative, The Transcendentalist, The Young American, Letter to President Van Buren, The Man of Letters, The Celebration of Intellect…

Other Essays

The Lord's Supper, Thoughts on Modern Literature, Walter Savage Landor, The Senses and the Soul, Transcendentalism, Prayers, Fourierism and the Socialists, Chardon Street and Bible Conventions, Agriculture of Massachusetts, Harvard University, English Reformers, Europe and European Books, The Tragic, Past and Present War, Perpetual Forces, Demonology, The Preacher, Milton, Thoreau, Michael Angelo, Plutarch, Ezra Ripley, D.D., Mary Moody Emerson, Samuel Hoar, Carlyle, George L. Stearns, Saadi, American Civilization, The Fortune of the Republic, The Sovereignty of Ethics, The Natural History of Intellect