Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works

Essays and Collections

• "Books" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (3) (January, 1858)
• Nature
  • Nature (1836 edition)
  • Nature, Addresses and Lectures (transcription project)
• An oration, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 (1838), or The American Scholar
• Divinity School Address (1838)
• Literary Ethics (1838)
• Essays (1841); revised and reissued as Essays: First Series (1847) (transcription project)
• Man the Reformer (1841)
• The Conservative (1841)
• The Method of Nature (1841)
• The Transcendentalist (1842)
• Essays: Second Series (1844)
• The Young American (1844)
• War (1849), in Æesthetic Papers
• Representative Men (1850)
• English Traits (1856)
• The Conduct of Life (1860)
• "Thoreau" ("Biographical Sketch") in Excursions (1863)
• "Saadi" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (81) (July, 1864)
• Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1868)
• Society and Solitude (1870)
• "Solitude and Society" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (December, 1857)
• Parnassus (1874)
• Letters and Social Aims (1876)

• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Riverside Edition, edited by Edward W. Emerson (1884) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Centenary Edition (1904)
  • "George Nidiver"
• Politics

Poetry

The following are published works of poetry. For individual poems, see Index of Titles.

• Poems (1847)
• May-day and other pieces (1867)
• Poems (1893) containing most pieces included in Poems (1847) and May-Day (1867)
• Poems: Household Edition (1904)

Poems

• "The Mountain and the Squirrel" (quoted in An Argosy of Fables (1921)) Also published as "Fable".
• Untitled in Birdcraft on Chickadees published in 1895.
• "Waldeinsamkeit" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (5) (October, 1858)

Published Translator of Poems

• The Phoenix by Hafiz
• Body and Soul by Enweri

Poems in Manuscript

• Poem on Eloquence
• Written in Sickness
• Γνωθι Σεαυτον "If thou canst bear"
• Woods A Prose Sonnet

Translator of Poems in Manuscript

• Alas, Alas, that I am betrayed by Michel Angelo Buonorotti
• The power of a beautiful face lifts me to heaven by Michel Angelo Buonorotti
• Sweet, sweet, is sleep,—Ah! sweeter, to be stone by Michel Angelo Buonorotti
• Wo is me woe's me when I think by Michel Angelo Buonorotti

Works about Emerson

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• A memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Elliot Cabot (1887) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Emerson in Concord; a memoir by Edward Waldo Emerson (1889) (IA)
• Emerson: a lecture given before the London ethical society (1892) by Thomas Fair Husband (HathiTrust)
• "Ralph Waldo Emerson" in Littell's Living Age, 1 (1)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," by George Parsons Lathrop in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Emerson, Ralph Waldo," by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Emerson" in Studies of a Biographer vol. 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen