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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sunshine was he
In the winter day;
And in the midsummer
Coolness and shade."

The (nearly) complete prose works of Emerson

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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849)

Nature (1836)

Nature
Commodity
Beauty
Language
Discipline
Idealism
Spirit
Prospects

Addresses

“The American Scholar” (1837)
“Harvard Divinity School Address” (1838)
“Literary Ethics” (1838)
“The Method of Nature” (1841)

Lectures

“Man the Reformer” (1841)
“Introductory Lecture on the Times” (1841)
“The Conservative” (1841)
“The Transcendentalist” (1842)
“The Young American” (1844)

Essays: First Series (1841)

History
Self-Reliance
Compensation
Spiritual Laws
Love
Friendship
Prudence
Heroism
The Over-Soul
Circles
Intellect
Art

Essays: Second Series (1844)

The Poet
Experience
Character
Manners
Gifts
Nature
Politics
Nominalist and Realist
New England Reformers. Lecture at Amory Hall

Representative Men (1850)

Uses of Great 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

English Traits (1856)

First Visit to England
Voyage to England
Land
Race
Ability
Manners
Truth
Character
Cockayne
Wealth
Aristocracy
Universities
Religion
Literature The "Times"
Stonehenge
Personal
Result
Speech at Manchester

The Conduct of Life (1860)

Fate
Power
Wealth
Culture
Behavior
Worship
Considerations by the Way
Beauty
Illusions


UNCOLLECTED PROSE

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Lord's Supper
The Editors to the Reader
Thoughts on Modern Literature
Two Years before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea.
Social Destiny of Man: or Association and Reorganization of Industry.
Michael Angelo, considered as a Philosophic Poet, with Translations.
Essays and Poems . By JONES VERY.
Walter Savage Landor
Transcendentalism
The Senses and the Soul
Prayers
Fourierism and the Socialists
Chardon Street and Bible Conventions
Agriculture of Massachusetts
The Zincali: or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain.
Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic.
Tecumseh; a Poem . By GEORGE H. COLTON.
Intelligence
Harvard University .
English Reformers
Poems . By ALFRED TENNYSON.
A Letter to Rev. Wm. E. Channing, D. D.By O. A. BROWNSON
Europe and European Books
The Bible in Spain, or the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula.
Past and Present By Thomas Carlyle.
Antislavery Poems. By JOHN PIERPONT. Boston: Oliver Johnson.1843.
Sonnets and other Poems. By WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
America -- an Ode; and other Poems. By N. W. COFFIN.
Poems by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING.
A Letter
The Huguenots in France and America
The Spanish Student. A Play in Three Acts . By H. W.Longfellow.
The Dream of a Day, and other Poems . By JAMES G. PERCIVAL.
The Tragic
Thoreau


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