Publisher's Synopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
He is today seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Collected here in one convenient volume is Ralph Waldo Emerson's First Series and Second Series of essays.
The collection includes both Self-Reliance and Nature.
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
