Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays & Poems (Library of America College Editions)

Cover Title Contents Nature; Addresses, and Lectures Contents Nature Introduction 1. Nature 2. Commodity 3. Beauty 4. Language 5. Discipline 6. Idealism 7. Spirit 8. Prospects Addresses The American Scholar The Divinity School Address Literary Ethics The Method of Nature Lectures Man the Reformer Lecture on the Times The Conservative The Transcendentalist The Young American Essays: First Series Contents I. History II. Self-Reliance III. Compensation IV. Spiritual Laws V. Love VI. Friendship VII. Prudence VIII. Heroism IX. The Over-Soul X. Circles XI. Intellect XII. Art Essays: Second Series Contents I. The Poet II. Experience III. Character IV. Manners V. Gifts VI. Nature VII. Politics VIII. Nominalist and Realist New England Reformers Representative Men Contents I. Uses of Great Men II. Plato; or, the Philosopher Plato: New Readings III. Swedenborg; or, the Mystic IV. Montaigne; or, the Skeptic V. Shakespeare; or, the Poet VII. Goethe; or, the Writer The Conduct of Life Contents I. Fate II. Power III. Wealth IV. Culture V. Behavior VI. Worship VII. Considerations by the Way VIII. Beauty IX. Illusions Other Essays and Addresses Contents The "Lord's Supper" Sermon West Indian Emancipation The Fugitive Slave Law Thoreau Quotation and Originality Society and Solitude Poems (1847) Contents The Sphinx Each and All The Problem To Rhea The Visit Uriel The World-Soul Alphonso of Castile Mithridates To J.W. Fate Guy Tact Hamatreya Good-Bye The Rhodora The Humble-Bee Berrying The Snow-Storm Woodnotes I Woodnotes II Monadnoc Fable Ode Astraea Etienne de la Boece Suum Cuique Compensation Forbearance The Park Forerunners Sursum Corda Ode to Beauty Give All to Love To Ellen, at the South To Eva The Amulet Thine Eyes Still Shined Eros Hermione Initial, Daemonic, and Celestial Love The Apology Merlin I Merlin II Bacchus Loss and Gain Merops The House Saadi Holidays Painting and Sculpture From the Persian of Hafiz Ghaselle: from the Persian of Hafiz Xenophanes The Day's Ration Blight Musketaquid Dirge Threnody Hymn at Concord Monument May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) Contents May-Day The Adirondacs Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces Brahma Nemesis Fate Freedom Ode Sung in the Town Hall Boston Hymn Voluntaries Love and Thought Lover's Petition Una Letters Rubies Merlin's Song The Test Solution Nature and Life Nature The Romany Girl Days The Chartist's Complaint My Garden The Titmouse Sea-Shore Song of Nature Two Rivers Waldeinsamkeit Terminus The Past The Last Farewell In Memoriam Elements Experience Compensation Politics Heroism Character Culture Friendship Beauty Manners Art Spiritual Laws Unity Worship Quatrains Translations Uncollected and Manuscript Poems Contents Grace South Wind St. Augustine Awed I behold once more All that thy virgin soul can ask be thine I call her beautiful; - she says I've found the dainty malice out The brave Empedocles defying fools Dear brother, would you know the life Dost thou not hear me Ellen Teach me I am forgotten by the dead Dust unto dust! and shall no more be said Why fear to die On thee has God conferred I live among ideal men Γνωθι Σεαυτον Van Buren S.R. Philosophers are lined with eyes within Let me go where e'er I will In the deep heart of man a poet dwells O what are heroes prophets men The Bohemian Hymn The Discontented Poet: a Masque He walked the streets of great New York The Skeptic Who knows this or that Saadi loved the new & old Proteus Chladni strewed on glass the sand New England Capitalist Intellect/Gravely broods apart on joy Dark Flower of Chesire Garden O Boston city lecture-hearing A patch of meadow & upland Webster Maia Song of Taliesen Trimountain The Muse Chronology Note on the Texts Notes Nature; Addresses, and Lectures Essays: First Series Essays: Second Series Representative Men The Conduct of Life Other Essays and Addresses Poems (1847) May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) Other Published and Manuscript Poems Index of Titles and First Lines Cataloging Information About the Library of America Back Cover An anthology of nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems, including in their entirety his books "Nature: Addresses, and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," and "The Conduct of Life," as well as his volumes of poetry and other essays, addresses, and poems from his manuscripts