World Literature
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Amos Bronson Alcott honors the life of Emerson with a eulogy and two poems written in 1882. (Image, text, PDF)
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- Circles: The Centrality of the Center in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Circles"
- Patrick Paul Christle discusses Emerson's essay and its relation to the mystical tradition of the center. [PDF]
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- Divinity School Address
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838
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- Emerson Texts
- 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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- English Traits (1856)
- HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England.
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- Mary Moody Emerson, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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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- Poems: Early Emerson Poems
- A collection of Emerson's best-known poems including Threnody, Concord Hymn, Monadnoc, The Rhodora and others.
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- Search the Emerson Texts
- A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site.
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- The Conduct of Life (1860)
- Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions
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- The Lord's Supper
- 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
- 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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- The Sovereignty of Ethics
- 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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- Transcendentalism
- Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842.