Emerson Collection

Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, was a leading figure in the mid-19th century Transcendentalist movement, known for his advocacy of individualism. The Transcendentalists believed in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and they rejected the idea that society and its institutions—especially organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual. They held the belief that people are at their best when they are truly "self-reliant" and independent.

Emerson initially wrote most of his important essays as lectures before revising them for print. His first two collections of essays, "Essays: First Series" and "Essays: Second Series," published in 1841 and 1844, respectively, are considered the core of his thinking, containing well-known essays such as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, and Experience. Alongside his essay "Nature," these works solidified Emerson's reputation during the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s as his most productive period.

Emerson's collection of works includes: - Nature - The American Scholar - The Conduct of Life - English Traits Essays - First Series: - History - Self-Reliance - Compensation - Spiritual Laws - Love - Friendship - Prudence - Heroism - The Over-Soul - Circles - Intellect - Art Essays - Second Series: - The Poet - Experience - Character - Manners - Gifts - Nature - Politics - Nominalist and Realist - New England Reformers Representative Men: - Plato; or, the Philosopher - Plato; New Readings - Swedenborg; or, the Mystic - Montaigne; or, the Skeptic - Shakespeare; or, the Poet - Napoleon; or, the Man of the World - Goethe; or, the Writer Poems: - May-Day And Other Pieces - Elements And Mottoes - Quatrains And Translations

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