Ralph Waldo Emerson - Selected Works

Selected Works

Collections

• Essays: First Series (1841)
• Essays: Second Series (1844)
• Poems (1847)
• Nature; Addresses and Lectures (1849)
• Representative Men (1850)
• English Traits (1856)
• The Conduct of Life (1860)
• May Day and Other Poems (1867)
• Society and Solitude (1870)
• Letters and Social Aims (1876)

Individual essays

• "Nature" (1836)
• "Self-Reliance" (Essays: First Series)
• "Compensation" (First Series)
• "The Over-Soul" (First Series)
• "Circles" (First Series)
• "The Poet" (Essays: Second Series)
• "Experience" (Essays: Second Series)
• "Politics" (Second Series)
• "The American Scholar"
• "New England Reformers"

Poems

• "Concord Hymn"
• "The Rhodora"
• "Brahma"
• "Uriel"

Letters

• Letter to Martin Van Buren