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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Selected Bibliography Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Emerson, 1914-1985 Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Emerson, 1985 to the present Mr. Emerson and the Critics (class exercise)   American Transcendentalism The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society includes a chronology of Emerson's life, bibliographies, and information about joining the society. Digital Emerson includes texts and commentary. The PBS page on Emerson has a brief biography and excerpts from his poetry. Emerson as a philosopher from the Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Prof. Ann Woodlief has prepared a hypertext study version of Emerson's Nature. See also the extensive Transcendentalism Web at this site. Emerson in the news: New York Times news feed on Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Hudson Review has an essay by Harold Fromm, "Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson's Evolutionary Existentialism"

Selected Works Available Online Essays Emerson's Essays. Searchable archive of these texts:  Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849) Essays: First Series (1841) History Self-Reliance Compensation Spiritual Laws Love Friendship Prudence Heroism The Over-Soul Circles Intellect Art Essays: Second Series (1844) Representative Men (1850) English Traits (1856) The Conduct of Life (1860) Uncollected Prose  Early poems, including "Each and All" and "The Rhodora" "Brahma" (page images from MOA) Full text and page images at Google Books: Essays, Second Series Nature, and Other Addresses Miscellanies English Traits (1879) Representative Men; The Conduct of Life More free texts available at Google Books About this site. Thanks to Rebecca Wall for recent corrections to links on this page.