Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
He was a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature".
Essays
- The Conduct of Life
- Fate
- Power
- Wealth
- Culture
- Behaviour
- 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.
Nature
Poems
- May-Day and Other Pieces
- MAY-DAY
- THE ADIRONDACS
- BRAHMA
- NEMESIS
- FATE
- FREEDOM
- ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857
- BOSTON HYMN READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863
- VOLUNTARIES
- LOVE AND THOUGHT
- UNA
- BOSTON
- GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,
- LETTERS
- RUBIES
- MERLIN’S SONG
- THE TEST
- SOLUTION
- HYMN SUNG AT THE SECOND CHURCH, AT THE ORDINATION OF REV. CHANDLER ROBBINS
- NATURE I
- NATURE II
- THE ROMANY GIRL
- DAYS
- MY GARDEN
- THE CHARTIST’S COMPLAINT
- THE TITMOUSE
- THE HARP
- SEASHORE
- SONG OF NATURE
- TWO RIVERS
- WALDEINSAMKEIT
- TERMINUS
- THE NUN’S ASPIRATION
- APRIL
- MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP
- CUPIDO
- THE PAST
- THE LAST FAREWELL
- LINES WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR’S BROTHER, EDWARD BLISS EMERSON, WHILST SAILING OUT OF BOSTON HARBOR, BOUND FOR THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO, IN 1832
- IN MEMORIAM E. B. E.
Elements and Mottoes
- EXPERIENCE
- COMPENSATION
- POLITICS
- HEROISM
- CHARACTER
- CULTURE
- FRIENDSHIP
- SPIRITUAL LAWS
- BEAUTY
- MANNERS
- ART
- UNITY
- WORSHIP
- PRUDENCE
- NATURE
- THE INFORMING SPIRIT
- CIRCLES
- INTELLECT
- GIFTS
- PROMISE
- CARITAS
- POWER
- WEALTH
- ILLUSIONS
The Snow-Storm
Concord Hymn
