75+ Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection. ...

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'. Contents: The Conduct of Life Fate Power Wealth Culture Behaviour Worship Considerations by the Way Beauty Illusions The Essays History Self-reliance Compensation Spiritual laws Love Friendship Prudence Heroism The over-soul Circles Intellect Art Nature The American Scholar 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