The Portable Emerson: New Edition

xxxix, 670 pp. A collection of works by the American Transcendentalist author known for his friendships with Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, etc. Includes: Introduction by Carl Bode; A Note on the Selections by Malcolm Cowley; Emerson's Annals; The Transcendentalist: Editor's Note; Nature; The American Scholar; Divinity School Address; The Transcendentalist; Essays: First and Second Series - Editor's Note; History; Self-Reliance; Compensation; Spiritual Laws; The Over-Soul; Circles; The Poet; Experience; Later Essays: Editor's Note; Plato; or, The Philosopher; Napoleon; or, The Man of the World; Fate; Illusions; Society and Solitude; A Yankee Abroad: English Traits - Editor's Note; Land; Race; Ability; Manners; Truth; Character; Cockayne; Wealth; Aristocracy; Universities; Religion; Result; The Yankee Sage: Editor's Note; Letter to President Van Buren; Ezra Ripley, D.D.; The Fugitive Slave Law; Farming; John Brown: Speech at Salem; Thoreau; Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England; Carlyle; The Bard: Editor's Note; Each and All; The Problem; Uriel; Mithridates; Hamatreya; The Rhodora; The Humble-Bee; The Snow-Storm; Woodnotes: I; Fable; Ode; Compensation; Give All to Love; Merlin (I, II); Bacchus; Threnody; Concord Hymn; Brahma; Days; Two Rivers; Music; Terminus; Further Reading. "Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including "History," "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," and "The Poet"; Emersons first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including "Uriel," "The Humble-Bee," and "Give All to Love"."