Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

Essays & lectures : Nature, addresses and lectures ; Essays, first and second series ; Representative men ; English traits ; The conduct of life by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
105 editions published between 1800 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 3,160 libraries worldwide
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Emerson in his journals by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
180 editions published between 1909 and 2010 in English and Japanese and held by 2,558 libraries worldwide
With Selected journals 1820-1842 and its companion volume Selected journals 1841-1877, the Library of America presents the most ample and comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's work ever published--one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts and preserves the range of his style in long, uninterrupted passages, but without the daunting critical apparatus of the 16-volume scholarly edition. Selected journals 1820-1842 begins with Emerson's first journal entry, on January 25, 1820, and follows him through his early years at Harvard College and the Divinity School, his ordination as a Unitarian minister, his marriage to Ellen Tucker and her untimely death, his decision to leave the ministry, and his travels in England and on the Continent. It offers perspective on the intellectual currents of the day--the emergence of Transcendentalism; the furor over Emerson's "Divinity School Address"; the founding of The Dial; experiments in communal living at Fruitlands and Brook Farm--and intimate sketches of Emerson's friends and contemporaries, including Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others--Book jacket.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
507 editions published between 1800 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 2,261 libraries worldwide
An amalgamation of two books published in 1841 and 1844, the 21 pieces known as "Essays: First and Second Series" describe Emerson's concepts of self-reliance, the law of compensation (a sort of yin-yang polarity in morality), and the transcendental Over-Soul, an ideal Emerson first enunciated (without naming it as such) in his infamous Divinity School Address, for which he was accused of atheism. "The world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind; and that one mind is everywhere active," he said to Harvard's startled divinity students and teachers. "All things proceed out of the same spirit." In these essays, he expands upon this notion of the individual Self as part of a universal All, of the human soul bound by a physical body yet tethered to an omniscient spirit.

Collected poems and translations by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
8 editions published in 1994 in English and Spanish and held by 2,182 libraries worldwide
Contains Emerson's published poetry, plus selections of his unpublished poetry from journals and notebooks, and some of his translations of poetry from other languages, notably Dante's La vita nuova.

The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
322 editions published between 1842 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 2,150 libraries worldwide
This collection of Emerson's essays covers the contents of two volumes originally published in 1841 and 1844. Annotation. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here is a collection of his classic essays, including the exhortation to "Self-Reliance" and the embattled realizations of "Circles" and "Experience." Here, too, are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, nature, friendship, love, and much more. For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome and durable paperback books. A distinguished author has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice of the text, and notes.

The portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
72 editions published between 1946 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 2,096 libraries worldwide
This volume presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldy idealist.

English traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
225 editions published between 1800 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 1,904 libraries worldwide

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
161 editions published between 1836 and 2010 in 9 languages and held by 1,857 libraries worldwide
The book contains excerpts from two essays: Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Ktaadn, and includes a commentary by Elizabeth Hall Witherell.

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
296 editions published between 1800 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,718 libraries worldwide
Interspersed are passages from the author's "Essays" and "Journal".

Selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Book )
53 editions published between 1940 and 2011 in English and held by 1,558 libraries worldwide
A large collection of various writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson.