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Centenary Edition

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

Volume I - Nature, Addresses & Lectures
 
Nature: Introduction
 I. Nature
 II. Commodity
 III. Beauty
 IV. Language
 V. Discipline
 VI. Idealism
 VII. Spirit
 VIII. Prospects
The American Scholar
Divinity School Address
Literary Ethics
The Method of Nature
Man the Reformer
Introductory Lecture on the Times
The Conservative
The Transcendentalist
The Young American


Volume II - Essays I

I. History
II. Self-Reliance
III. Compensation
IV. Spiritual Laws
V. Love
VI Friendship
VII. Prudence
VIII Heroism
IX. The Over-Soul
X. Circles
XI. Intellect
XII. Art


Volume III - Essays II

I The Poet
II Experience
III Character
IV Manners
V Gifts
VI Nature
VII Politics
VIII Nominalist and Realist
IX New England Reformers


Volume IV - Representative Men

Uses of Great Men
Plato; or, the Philosopher
Swedenborg; or, the Mystic
Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
Shakspeare; or, the Poet
Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
Goethe; or, the Writer


Volume V - English Traits

 I First Visit to England
 II Voyage to England
 III Land
 IV Race
 V Ability
 VI Manners
 VII Truth
 VIII Character
 IX Cockayne
 X Wealth
 XI Aristocracy
 XII Universities
 XIII Religion
 XIV Literature
 XV The "Times"
 XVI Stonehenge
 XVII Personal
 XVIII Result
 XIX Speech at Manchester


Volume VI - Conduct of Life

I Fate
II Power
III Wealth
IV Culture
V Behavior
VI Worship
VII Considerations by the Way
VIII Beauty
IX Illusions

 

Volume VII - Society and Solitude

I Society and Solitude
II Civilization
III Art
IV Eloquence
 V Domestic Life
 VI Farming
 VII Works and Days
 VIII Books
 IX Clubs
 X Courage
 XI Success
 XII Old Age

 

Volume VIII - Letters and Social Aims
 
Poetry and Imagination
Social Aims
Eloquence
Resources
The Comic
Quotation and Originality
Progress of Culture
Persian Poetry
Inspiration
Greatness
Immortality


Volume IX - Poems


Volume X - Lectures and Biographical Sketches

Demonology
Aristocracy
Perpetual Forces
Character
Education
The Superlative
The Sovereignty of Ethics
The Preacher
The Man of Letters
The Scholar
Plutarch
Life and Letters in New England
Ezra Ripley, D. D.
Chardon Street Convention
Mary Moody Emerson
Samuel Hoar
Thoreau
Carlyle
George L. Stearns


Volume XI - Miscellanies

I The Lord's Supper
II Historical Discourse at Concord
III Letter to President Van Buren
IV Emancipation in the British West Indies
V War
VI The Fugitive Slave Law
VIII The Assault Upon Mr. Sumner
IX Speech on Affairs in Kansas
X John Brown--Speech at Boston
XI John Brown--Speech at Salem
XII Theodore Parker
XIII American Civilization
XIV The Emancipation Proclamation
XV Abraham Lincoln
XVI Harvard Commeroration Speech
XVII Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Concord
XVIII Editors' Address
XIX Address to Kossuth
XX Woman
XXI Consecration of Sleepy Hollow Cemetary
XXII Robert Burns
XXIII Shakespeare
XXIV Humboldt
XXV Walter Scott
XXVI Speech at Banquet in Honor of Chinese Embassy
XXVII Remarks at Organization of Free Religious Association
XXVIII Speech at Second Annual Meeting of Free Religion
XXIX Address at Opening of Concord Free Public Library
XXX The Fortune of the Republic


Volume XII - Natural History of the Intellect and Other Papers

Natural History of Intellect  
The Celebration of Intellect  
Country Life  
Concord Walks  
Michael Angelo  
Boston  
Milton
Art and Criticism  


Papers from the Dial
 

I. Thoughts on Modern Literature
II. Walter Savage Landor
III. Prayers
IV. Agriculture of Massachusetts
V.  Europe and European Books
VI. Past and Present
VII.  A Letter
VIII.  The Tragic


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

Centenary Edition

The Complete Works of
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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As we expand the Multi-Media venue on RWE.org, here are to pieces from the Bicentennial Celebration:
Reawakening the American Soul Reawakening the American Soul
Richard Geldard, professor, philosophy, Yeshiva University
Jacob Needleman, professor, philosophy, SFSU
Robert Thurman, professor, Buddhist studies, Columbia
Three philosophers explore the spiritual quest for self-recovery in a time when immense social and intellectual forces are arrayed against us.

Emerson and the Examined Life Emerson and the Examined Life
Robert Pinsky, 1997-2000 poet laureate
Richard Geldard, professor, philosophy, Yeshiva University
David M. Robinson, Emerson scholar
Robert Pinsky celebrates the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a live reading from some of his famous American essays.
 
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