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Emerson Texts - http://www.emersoncentral.com/
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher. This site contains HTML (web-readable) versions of many of Emerson's best-known essays, including a Search function to look for specific words, phrases, or quotations. |
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Search the Emerson Texts - http://www.emersoncentral.com/search.htm
A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site. |
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Literature Network: Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/
Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature. |
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Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) - http://www.aboutemerson.com/natureand.html
An online searchable collection of Emerson's essays including Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit, Prospects, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, Literary Ethics, The Method of Nature, Man the Reformer, An Introductory Lecture on the Times, The Conservative, The Transcendentalist, and The Young American. |
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Divinity School Address - http://www.emersoncentral.com/divaddr.htm
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838 |
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The Conduct of Life (1860) - http://www.emersoncentral.com/conduct.htm
Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions |
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Poems: Early Emerson Poems - http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/index.htm
A collection of Emerson's best-known poems including Threnody, Concord Hymn, Monadnoc, The Rhodora and others. |
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Representative Men (1850) - http://www.emersoncentral.com/repmen.htm
(Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.) |
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Essays: Second Series - http://www.aboutemerson.com/essays2.htm
A searchable version of Emerson's second collection of essays which includes The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, and New England Reformers. |
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English Traits (1856) - http://www.emersoncentral.com/english.htm
HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England. |
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Essays: First Series - http://www.aboutemerson.com/essays1.htm
A searchable version of Emerson's first collection of essays which includes History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art. |
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Uncollected Prose - http://www.emersoncentral.com/uncollec.htm
Includes essays originally published in The Dial magazine, and the essay "The Lord's Supper." |
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Essays, Second Series - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2945
Plain text file at Project Gutenberg. |
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Essays, First Series - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2944
Plain text file at Project Gutenberg. |
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http://eserver.org/thoreau/emerson1.html - http://eserver.org/thoreau/emerson1.html
A biographical essay by Emerson, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 1862. |
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Emerson on Thoreau - http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/thoreau/apprec.html
Emerson's eulogy for his friend Henry David Thoreau. |
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Transcendentalism - http://www.emersoncentral.com/transcendentalism.htm
Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842. |
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Mary Moody Emerson, by Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://www.emersoncentral.com/mary_moody_emerson.htm
Emerson's essay in honor of his aunt who helped to raise him, and who recent scholars have credited with much influence over his thinking. Originally presented to the Woman's Club in Boston, 1869. |
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The Sovereignty of Ethics - http://www.emersoncentral.com/sovereignty_of_ethics.htm
A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships. |
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Concord Hymn - http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/concordhymn.htm
Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836. |
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The Lord's Supper - http://www.emersoncentral.com/lordsupper.htm
The Lord's Supper (essay). Emerson explains the theological basis for his refusal to celebrate communion, a refusal that cost him his pastorate in the Unitarian church. |
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The Poet - http://www.emersoncentral.com/poet.htm
The Poet, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on one page for ease of reading and printing. |
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Poetry of Emerson - Atlantic Monthly November 1857 - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/nov1857/nov1857.htm
Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online presents a November 1857 article with four poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Circles: The Centrality of the Center in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Circles" - http://christle.freeshell.org/essays/circles.pdf
Patrick Paul Christle discusses Emerson's essay and its relation to the mystical tradition of the center. |
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Self-Reliance - http://www.yoga.com/ydc/enlighten/enlighten_document.asp?ID=28§ion=8&cat=163
An extract with a brief introduction and footnotes for a few of the less obvious references in the text. |