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The Texts of Emerson’s Prose and Poetry
Sermons
- I. [Pray Without Ceasing], 1 Thessalonians 5:17, July 25, 1826
- XXXIX. [Summer], Psalm 24:16-17, June 13, 1829
- XC. [Trust Yourself], Matthew 16:26, October 3, 1830
- CLXII. [The Lord's Supper], Romans 14:17, September 9, 1832
Selected Early Addresses and Lectures
- The American Scholar
- An Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
- The Method of Nature
- The Transcendentalist
From Essays: First Series History
- Self-Reliance
- Compensation
- Spiritual Laws
- The Over-Soul
From Essays: Second Series
- Circles
- The Poet
- Experience
- Politics
- New England Reformers
From Representative Men
- Montaigne, or the Skeptic
- Shakspeare, or the Poet
From The Conduct of Life
- Fate
- Power
- Illusions
From Letters and Social Aims
- From Poetry and Imagination
- Quotation and Originality
Papers from The Dial
- The Editors to the Reader
- Thoughts on Modern Literature
Miscellanies on His Contemporaries and His Times
- An Address . . . on . . . the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies
- From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Thoreau
- Abraham Lincoln
- From Historic Notes on Life and Letters in New England
Selected Poetry From Poems
- The Sphinx
- Each and All
- The Problem
- The Visit
- Uriel
- Hamatreya
- The Rhodora
- The Humble-Bee
- The Snow-Storm
- Fable
- Ode
- Give All to Love
- Thine Eyes Still Shined
- Eros
- The Apology
- Merlin I
- Merlin II
- Bacchus
- Blight
- Threnody
- Concord Hymn
From May-Day and Other Pieces
- Brahma
- Nemesis
- Boston Hymn
- Voluntaries
- Days
- The Chartist’s Complaint
- The Titmouse
- Sea-Shore
- Two Rivers
- Waldeinsamakeit
- Terminus
- From Elements
- Art
- Worship
- From Quatrain
- Memory
- From Translation
- Song of Seid Nimetollah of Kuhistan Others
- Grace
- Cupido
- ["Let Me Go Where Ever I Will’]
- ["Ever the Rock of Ages Melts’]
From Correspondence
- To William Emerson, Concord, November 10, 1814
- To Mary Moody Emerson, Cambridge, September 23, 1826
- To William Emerson, Charleston, January 6 and 9, 1827
- To Mary Moody Emerson, St. Augustine, March 15?, 1827
- To the Second Church and Society in Boston, Cambridge, January 30, 1829
- To the Proprietors of the Second Church, Boston, September 11, 1832
- To the Second Church and Society, Boston, December 22, 1832
- To Edward Bliss Emerson, Boston, December 22, 1833
- To Edward Bliss Emerson, Newton, May 31, 1834
- To Lydia Jackson, Concord, January 24, 1835
- To Lydia Jackson, Concord, February 1, 1835
- To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, September 17, 1836
- To William Emerson, Concord, October 31, 1836
- To Martin Van Buren, Concord, April 23, 1838
- For Henry David Thoreau, Concord, May 2, 1838
- To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, May 10, 1838
- To Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord, June 28, 1838
- To Henry Ware, Jr., Concord, July 28, 1838
- To Henry Ware,Jr., Concord, October 8, 1838
- To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, October, 17, 1838
- To James Freeman Clarke, Concord, December 7, 1838
- To Margaret Fuller, Concord, August 4, 1840
- To Margaret Fuller, Concord, October 24, 1840
- To Margaret Fuller, Concord, March 14, 1841
- To Mary Moody Emerson, Concord, September 21, 1841
- To Margaret Fuller, Concord, January 28, 1842
- To Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Concord, January 28, 1842
- To Caroline Sturgis, Concord, February 4, 1842
- To Lidian Emerson, Providence, February 10, 1842
- To Lidian Emerson, Castleton, Staten Island, March 1, 1842
- To Margaret Fuller, Concord, June 7, 1843
- To Charles Anderson Dana, Concord, October 18, 1843
- To Margaret Fuller, Concord, December 17, 1843
- To Christopher Pearse Cranch, Concord, June 7, 1844
- To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, December 31, 1844
- To William J. Rotch, Concord, November 17, 1845
- To the Corporation of Harvard University, Concord, June 25, 1846
- To William Henry Furness, Concord, August 6, 1847
- To Henry David Thoreau, Manchester, December 2, 1847
- To Lidian Emerson, London, March 8 and 10, 1848
- To William Emerson, Concord, February 10, 1850
- To Pauline W. Davis, Concord, Septembe 18, 1850
- To Wendell Phillips, Concord, February 19, 1853
- To Walt Whitman, Concord, July 21, 1855
- To Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Concord, July 22, 1853
- To Thomas Carlyle, Concord, May 6, 1856
- To Henry David Thoreau, Concord, May 11, 1858
- To William Henry Seward, Buffalo, January 12, 1863
- To Emma Lazarus, Concord, February 24, 1868
- To Emma Lazarus, Concord, April 14, 1868
- To Emma Lazarus, Concord, July 9, 1869
- To Emma Lazarus, Concord, August 23, 1869
- To Emma Lazarus, Concord, August 19, 1870
- To Lidian Emerson, the Wyoming, October 31 and November 2, 1872
- To Emma Lazarus, Concord, July 22, 1876
- To George Stewart Jr., Concord, January 22, 1877
Contexts
American Transcendentalism
- Madame de Staël, On Germany
- William Wordsworth, Prospectus to The Recluse
- Frederic Henry Hedge, Coleridge’s Literary Character/From German
Philosophy
- Sampson Reed, Genius
Contemporary Reviews and Impressions
- Caricatures
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Nature-A Prose Poem
- Andrews Norton, The New School in Literature and Religion
- Thomas Carlyle, From Preface to Essays, First Series
- Walt Whitman, Review of "The Poet" Lecture
- Margaret Fuller, Emerson’s Essays
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, From The Old Manse
- James Russell Lowell, From A Fable for Critics
- Henry David Thoreau, From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Anthony Trollope, North America: From Boston
- Louisa May Alcott, From Journals
- Emma Lazarus, A Memorial Sonnet to Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry James, Emerson
- José MartÌ, From Emerson
- George Santayana, From Interpretations of Poetry and Religion/Emerson
- William James, Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord
- John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- D. H. Lawrence, Emerson
- Robert Frost, On Emerson
- A. R. Ammons, Emerson
Criticism
- O. W. Firkins, Has Emerson a Future?
- Stephen E. Whicher, Emerson’s Tragic Sense
- Perry Miller, New England’s Transcendentalism: Native or Imported?
- Joel Porte, The Problem of Emerson
- Hyatt H. Waggoner, From The Achievement of the Poems: "Artful Thunder"
- Julie Ellison, "Quotation and Originality"
- Michael T. Gilmore, Emerson and the Persistence of the Commodity
- Barbara Packer, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Stanley Cavell, From The Philosopher in American Life
- Cornel West, The Emersonian Prehistory of American Pragmatism
- Len Gougon, From Virtue’s Hero: Emerson, Anitslavery, and Reform/ Conclusion
- Richard Poirer, From Poetry and Pragmatism
- Robert D. Richardson, Jr., The Heart Has Its Jubilees
- Saundra Morris, Through a Thousand Voices: Emerson’s Poetry and "The Sphinx"

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