This collection contains 200 + of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work, including essays, addresses, lectures, and poetry! It is formatted for optimal viewing on the Nook and is equipped with an active table of contents for smooth navigation! The collection includes: ESSAYS, which contains: I. HISTORY. II. SELF-RELIANCE. III. COMPENSATION. IV. SPIRITUAL LAWS. V. LOVE. VI. FRIENDSHIP. VII. PRUDENCE. VIII. HEROISM. IX. THE OVER-SOUL. X. CIRCLES. XI. INTELLECT. XII. ART. XIII. THE POET. XIV. EXPERIENCE. XV. CHARACTER. XVI. MANNERS. XVII. GIFTS. XVIII. NATURE. XIX. POLITICS. XX. NONIMALIST AND REALIST. XXI. NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS. NATURE ADDRESSES AND LECTURES, containing: I. THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR II. DIVINITY SCHOOL ADDRESS III. LITERARY ETHICS IV. THE METHOD OF NATURE V. MAN THE REFORMER VI. INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ON THE TIMES VII. THE CONSERVATIVE VIII. THE TRANSCENDENTALIST IX. THE YOUNG AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE MEN, containing: I. USES OF GREAT MEN. II. PLATO; OR, THE PHILOSOPHER. III. SWEDENBORG; OR, THE MYSTIC. IV. MONTAIGNE; OR, THE SKEPTIC. V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET. VI. NAPOLEON; OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD. VII. GOETHE; OR, THE WRITER ENGLISH TRAITS CONDUCT OF LIFE SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE MISCELLANIES I. THE LORD'S SUPPER II. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE AT CONCORD III. LETTER TO PRESIDENT VAN BUREN IV. EMANCIPATION IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES V. WAR VI. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW VIII. THE ASSAULT UPON MR. SUMMER IX. SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS X. JOHN BROWN—SPEECH AT BOSTON XI. JOHN BROWN—SPEECH AT SALEM XII. THEODORE PARKER XIII. AMERICAN CIVILISATION XIV. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION XV. ABRAHAM LINCOLN XVI. HARVARD COMMEMORATION SPEECH XVII. DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT IN CONCORD ADDRESS XVIII. EDITORS' ADDRESS XIX. ADDRESS TO KOSSUTH XX. WOMAN XXI. CONSECRATION OF SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETARY XXII. ROBERT BURNS XXIII. SHAKESPEARE XXIV. HUMBOLDT XXV. WALTER SCOTT XXVI. SPEECH AT BANQUET IN HONOUR OF CHINESE EMBASSY XXVII. REMARKS AT ORGANISATION OF FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION XXVIII. SPEECH AT SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF FREE RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATION XXIX. ADDRESS AT OPENING OF CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY XXX. THE FORTUNE OF THE REPUBLIC POEMS, which contains the following poetry collections with more than 200 poems: POEMS MAY-DAY AND OTHER PIECES ELEMENTS AND MOTTOES QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS TRANSLATIONS FRAGMENTS ON NATURE AND LIFE POEMS OF YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in 1803. Educated at Harvard and the Cambridge Divinity School, he became a Unitarian minister in 1826 at the Second Church Unitarian. The congregation, with Christian overtones, issued communion, something Emerson refused to do. "Really, it is beyond my comprehension," Emerson once said, when asked by a seminary professor whether he believed in God. (Quoted in 2,000 Years of Freethought edited by Jim Haught.) By 1832, after the untimely death of his first wife, Emerson cut loose from Unitarianism. During a year-long trip to Europe, Emerson became acquainted with such intelligentsia as British writer Thomas Carlyle, and poets Wordsworth and Coleridge. He returned to the United States in 1833, to a life as poet, writer and lecturer. Emerson inspired Transcendentalism, although never adopting the label himself. He rejected traditional ideas of deity in favor of an "Over-Soul" or "Form of Good," ideas which were considered highly heretical. His books include Nature (1836), The American Scholar (1837), Divinity School Address (1838), Essays, 2 vol. (1841, 1844), Nature, Addresses and Lectures (1849), and three volumes of poetry. Margaret Fuller became one of his "disciples," as did Henry David Thoreau. The best of Emerson's rather wordy writing survives as epigrams, such as the famous: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Other one- (and two-) liners include: "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect" (Self-Reliance, 1841). "The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being" (Journal, 1836). "The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain" (Address to Harvard Divinity College, July 15, 1838). He demolished the right wing hypocrites of his era in his essay "Worship": ". . . the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons" (Conduct of Life, 1860). "I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship" (Self-Reliance). "The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature" (English Traits, 1856). "The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." (Civilization, 1862). He influenced generations of Americans, from his friend Henry David Thoreau to John Dewey, and in Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche, who takes up such Emersonian themes as power, fate, the uses of poetry and history, and the critique of Christianity. D. 1882. Ralph Waldo Emerson was his son and Waldo Emerson Forbes, his grandson.
