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NATURE
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
AN ADDRESS
THE TRANSCENDENTALIST
THE LORD'S SUPPER
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 & Realist
* New England Reformers
PLATO; OR THE PHILOSOPHER
NAPOLEON; OR THE MAN OF THE WORLD
ENGLISH TRAITS
I. First Visit to England
II. Voyage to England
III. Land
IV. Race
V. Ability
VI. Manners
VII. Truth
VIII. Character
IX. Cockayne
X. Wealth
XI. Aristocracy
XII. Universities
XIII. Religion
XIV. Literature
XV. The "Times"
XVI. Stonehenge
XV. Personal
XVI. Result
XVII. Speech at Manchester
CONDUCT OF LIFE
* Wealth
* Culture
SOCIETY AND SOLITUTE
FARMING
POEMS
* Good-bye
* The Problem
* Uriel
* Rhodora
* The Humble-Bee
* The Snow-Storm
* Ode
* Forebearance
* Forerunners
* Give All to Love
* Threnody
* Concord Hymn
* May-Day
* The Aridondacs
* Brahma
* Merlin's Song
* Hymn
* Days
* Character
* Walden
* Lines to Ellen
* Self-Reliance
* Webster
EZRA RIPLEY, D.D.
EMANCIPATION OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
JOHN BROWN
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
THOREAU
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
CARLYLE (

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damy | Sep 23, 2006 |

I outgrew the transcendentalists by the time i was 16, but I think everyone should go through an Emerson-Thoreau period. (

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A subtle chain of countless rings / The next unto the farthest brings; / The eye reads omens where it goes, / And speaks all languages the rose; / And, striving to be man, the worm / Mounts through all the spires of form.

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The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar."

As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." More than any writer of his time, he forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and embodied and defined what it meant to be an American. Matthew Arnold called Emerson's essays "the most important work done in prose."

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