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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson Texts On the Web
There are several sites with Emerson's writings on the web.
Searches for a particular word in Emerson's writings can be conducted effectively using the Emerson concordance.
A searchable site with most of Emerson's essays and addresses can be found at Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts.
This large single file containing most of Emerson's essays, lectures and addresses can be downloaded to your local computer. It can be useful for off-line searches for a particular word or passage.
Emerson texts are also found at The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Web Site.
The complete poems are found at Humanities Text Initiative American Verse Collection.
The representative essays and poems listed below are located on this site.
Nature (1836)
Addresses
"The American Scholar" (1837)
"The Divinity School Address" (1838)
"The Method of Nature" (1841)
Essays: First Series (1841)
Essays: Second Series (1844)
Representative Men (1850)
The Conduct of Life (1860)
Selected Poems
Reading Emerson
Open a second window with a choice of dictionaries. Leave that window open while you read, and apply as necessary.
Reading texts on the web?
Reading long texts on the computer screen is still not a very popular activity yet. (Newspaper articles and editorials are about the longest things most people read regularly.)
Here are some suggestions:
- Make sure the font is large enough. Enlarge the size of the font using your browser.
- Open the document in its own window and enlarge the window in the screen.
- Print the document onto paper and read it.
- Buy a paper copy of the book. (Still a favorite.)
