Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bibliography

Essays and Treatises

• Nature (1836)
• Essays: First Series (1841):
  • History
  • Self-Reliance
  • Compensation
  • Spiritual Laws
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • Prudence
  • Heroism
  • The Over-Soul
  • Circles
  • Intellect
  • Art
• Essays: Second Series (1844):
  • The Poet
  • Experience
  • Character
  • Manners
  • Gifts
  • Nature
  • Politics
  • Nominalist and Realist
  • New England Reformers
    – Lecture at Amory Hall.
• Representative Men (1850)
• English Traits (1856)
• The Conduct of Life (1860)
• May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
• Society and Solitude (1870)
• Preface to Plutarch's "Morals" (1870)
• Natural History of Intellect (1893)
• The Heart of Emerson's Essays (1933)
• Essays and Lectures (1983)
• Antislavery Writings (1995)

Addresses, Lectures and Sermons

• The American Scholar (1837)
• Address at Divinity College (1838)
• Literary Ethics (1838)
• The Method of Nature (1841)
• Man the Reformer (1841)
• Introductory Lecture on the Times (1841)
• The Conservative (1841)
• The Transcendentalist (1842)
• The Young American (1844)
• Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (1849)
• Miscellanies (1884)
• Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1884)
• The Early Lectures (1959 – 1972)
• Complete Sermons (1989 – 1991)

Biographical Sketches

• Representative Men (1850)

Poetry

• Poems (1840)
• Poems (1847)
• Parnassus (1874)
• Selected Poems (1876)

Correspondence and Journals

• Letters and Social Aims (1875)
• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834 – 1872 (1883)
• The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Friend (1899)
• Journals (1909 – 1914)
• The Heart of Emerson's Journals (1926)
• The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939)
• Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960 – 1983)