Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literary Works

Nature; Addresses, and Lectures, 1849

• Nature, 1836. Webtext by Ann Woodlief.
• "The American Scholar." Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837
• "Divinity School Address." Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge," July 15, 1838. Webtext by Rebecca Moon.
• "Literary Ethics." Address to the Literary Societies in Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
• "The Method of Nature." Address to the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841
• "Man the Reformer." Lecture, Mechanics' Apprentices' Library Association, Boston, January 25, 1841
• "Introductory Lecture on the Times." Lecture, Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841
• "The Conservative." Lecture, Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841
• "The Transcendentalist." Lecture, Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1843
• "The Young American." Lecture, Mercantile Library Association, Boston, February 7, 1844
• "Lecture on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies." August 1, 1844.

Essays: First Series, 1841

• I. "History"
• II. "Self-Reliance"
• III. "Compensation"
• IV. "Spiritual Laws"
• V. "Love"
• VI. "Friendship"
• VII "Prudence"
• VIII. "Heroism"
• IX. "The Over-Soul"
• X. "Circles" Web text by Kai Sommer
• XI. "Intellect"
• XII. "Art"

Essays: Second Series, 1844

• I. "The Poet" with Webtext by Ellen Moore and Ann Woodlief.
• II. "Experience." Study text.
• III. "Character"
• IV. "Manners"
• V. "Gifts"
• VI. "Nature"
• VII. "Politics"
• VIII. "Nominalist and Realist"
• "New England Reformers." Lecture at Amory Hall.

Representative Men, 1850

• I. "Uses of Great Men"
• II. "Plato; or, the Philosopher"
•    "Plato: New Readings"
• III. "Swedenborg; or, the Mystic"
• IV. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic"
• V. "Shakspeare; or, the Poet"
• VI. "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World"
• VII. "Goethe; or, the Writer"

English Traits, 1856

The Conduct of Life, 1860

• I. "Fate". Web Study Text.
• II. "Power"
• III. "Wealth"
• IV. "Culture"
• V. "Behavior"
• VI. "Worship"
• VII. "Considerations by the Way"
• VIII. "Beauty"
• IX. "Illusions"

Society and Solitude, 1870

Letters and Social Aims, 1875

• "Poetry and Imagination"

Lectures, Biographical Sketches, and Uncollected Prose

• Essays from the Dial
• Thoughts on Art.The Dial, I, Jan. 1841.
• "Woman" [Lecture]
• "The Naturalist" (1834).
• "Nature" (1850)
• "The Sovereignity of Ethics"
• "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England"
• Education
• Government of Children
• Thoreau [Eulogy]
• Mary Moody Emerson
• The Lord's Supper
• Dial Essays, 1840. Dial Essays, 1841. Dial Essays, 1842. Dial Essays, 1843. Dial Essays, 1844.

Poems

• Selected Emerson Poems
• Early Emerson Poems