Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15) by
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 are all the indispensable and most renowned works, including "The American Scholar" ("our intellectual Declaration of Independence," as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), "The Divinity School Address," considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to "Self-Reliance," along with the more embattled realizations of "Circles" and, especially, "Experience." Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other "representative men," and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people. This volume includes Emerson's well-knownNature; Addresses, and Lectures(1849), hisEssays- First Series(1841) andEssays- Second Series(1844), plusRepresentative Men(1850),English Traits(1856), and his later book of essays,The Conduct of Life(1860). These are the works that established Emerson's colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust.The reasons for Emerson's influence and durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work. Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America's greatest writer. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Nature; Addresses, and Lectures
Nature
Introduction
Nature
Commodity
Beauty
Language
Discipline
Idealism
Spirit
Prospects
Addresses
The American Scholar. An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837
An Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, July 15, 1838
Literary Ethics. An Address to the Literary Societies in Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
The Method of Nature. An Adress to the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841
Lectures
Man the Reformer. A Lecture read before the Mechanics’ Apprentices’ Library Association, Boston, January, 25, 1841
Introductory Lecture on the Times. Read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841
The Conservative. A Lecture read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 9, 1841.
The Transcendentalist. A Lecture read in the Masonic Temple, Boston, January, 1842
The Young American. A Lecture read to the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 7, 1844.
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, Lecture at Amory Hall
Representative Men
I. Uses of Great Men
II. Plato; or, the Philosopher Plato: New Readings
III. Swedenborg; or, the Mystic
IV. Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
V. Shakespeare; or, the Poet
VI. Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
VII. Goethe; or, the Writer
English Traits
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
Fate
Power
Wealth
Culture
Behavior
Worship
Considerations by the Way
Beauty
Illusions
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations (LOA #70) by
Gathering both published and unpublished work, this Library of America edition makes available for the first time to general readers the full range of Emerson's poetry, including many poems left in manuscript at his death that have hitherto been available only in drastically edited versions or specialized scholarly texts. Displacing all previous editions in its comprehensiveness and textual authority, this volume reveals the ecstatic, mystical, and private meditative sides of one of the greatest of all American writers.
Poems (1847)
May-Day and other pieces (1867)
May-Day
The Adirondacs
Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces
Nature and Life
Elements
Quatrains
Translations (Michelangelo, Hafiz, Omar Chiam, Ibn Jemin, others)
From Selected Poems (1876)
The Harp
April
Wealth
Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp
Cupido
The Nun’s Aspiration
Hymn Sung at the Second Church, Boston
Boston
Other Published Poems and Translations
Uncollected poems
Translations of poems by Lucretius, Hafiz, Ibn Jemin, Nisami, Ferideddin Attar, others
Manuscript Poems and Translations
Manuscript poems are presented in their approximate order of composition; some poems cannot be dated.
Translations include works by Hafiz, Saadi, Jean Chardin, Goethe, and Michelangelo.
Dante’s Vita Nuova (complete)