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

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