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.
Concord Hymn
Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836.
Divinity School Address
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838
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 …
English Traits (1856)
HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England.
Literature Network: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature.
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 …
Poems: Early Emerson Poems
A collection of Emerson's best-known poems including Threnody, Concord Hymn, Monadnoc, The Rhodora and others.
Poetry of Emerson - Atlantic Monthly November 1857
Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online presents a November 1857 article with four poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men (1850)
(Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.)
Search the Emerson Texts
A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site.
The Conduct of Life (1860)
Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions
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.
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.
Transcendentalism
Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842.
Uncollected Prose
Includes essays originally published in The Dial magazine, and the essay "The Lord's Supper."
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