Self-Reliance and Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

He is today seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.

Collected here in one convenient volume is Ralph Waldo Emerson's First Series and Second Series of essays. The collection includes both Self-Reliance and Nature.

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