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| Concord Hymn: Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836. | | Divinity School Address: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838 | | Emerson on Thoreau: Emerson's eulogy for his friend Henry David Thoreau. | | 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. | | English Traits (1856): HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England. | | Environmental Ethics: An archive of selected writings from 1938 through 1842, all dealing with nature. | | Essays, First Series: Plain text file at Project Gutenberg. | | Essays, Second Series: Plain text file at Project Gutenberg. | | Essays: First Series: A searchable version of Emerson's first collection of essays which includes History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art. | | Essays: Second Series: A searchable version of Emerson's second collection of essays which includes The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, and New England Reformers. | | Literature Network: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature. | | 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. | | Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849): An online searchable collection of Emerson's essays including Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit, Prospects, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, Literary Ethics, The Method of Nature, Man the Reformer, An Introductory Lecture on the Times, The Conservative, The Transcendentalist, and The Young American. | | Poems: Early Emerson Poems: A collection of Emerson's best-known poems including Threnody, Concord Hymn, Monadnoc, The Rhodora and others. | | 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 | | Representative Men (1850): (Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.) | | Search the Emerson Texts: A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site. | | Self-Reliance: An extract with a brief introduction and footnotes for a few of the less obvious references in the text. | | The Conduct of Life (1860): Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions | | 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 Poet: The Poet, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on one page for ease of reading and printing. | | 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. | | Thoreau: A biographical essay by Emerson, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 1862. | | Transcendentalism: Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842. | | Uncollected Prose: Includes essays originally published in The Dial magazine, and the essay "The Lord's Supper." |
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