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• Circles: The Centrality of the Center in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Circles"

  http://christle.freeshell.org/essays/circles.pdf
  Patrick Paul Christle discusses Emerson's essay and its relation to the mystical tradition of the center.

• Concord Hymn

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/concordhymn.htm
  Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836.

• Divinity School Address

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/divaddr.htm
  Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838

• Emerson Texts

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/
  Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher. This site contains HTML (web-readable) versions of many of Emerson's best-known essays, including a Search function to look for specific words, phrases, or quotations.

• English Traits (1856)

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/english.htm
  HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England.

• Essays: First Series

  http://www.aboutemerson.com/essays1.htm
  A searchable version of Emerson's first collection of essays which includes History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art.

• Essays: Second Series

  http://www.aboutemerson.com/essays2.htm
  A searchable version of Emerson's second collection of essays which includes The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, and New England Reformers.

• Literature Network: Ralph Waldo Emerson

  http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/
  Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature.

• Mary Moody Emerson, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/mary_moody_emerson.htm
  Emerson's essay in honor of his aunt who helped to raise him, and who recent scholars have credited with much influence over his thinking. Originally presented to the Woman's Club in Boston, 1869.

• Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)

  http://www.aboutemerson.com/natureand.html
  An online searchable collection of Emerson's essays including Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit, Prospects, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, Literary Ethics, The Method of Nature, Man the Reformer, An Introductory Lecture on the Times, The Conservative, The Transcendentalist, and The Young American.

• Poems: Early Emerson Poems

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/index.htm
  A collection of Emerson's best-known poems including Threnody, Concord Hymn, Monadnoc, The Rhodora and others.

• Poetry of Emerson - Atlantic Monthly November 1857

  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/nov1857/nov1857.htm
  Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online presents a November 1857 article with four poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Representative Men (1850)

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/repmen.htm
  (Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.)

• Search the Emerson Texts

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/search.htm
  A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site.

• The Conduct of Life (1860)

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/conduct.htm
  Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions

• The Lord's Supper

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/lordsupper.htm
  The Lord's Supper (essay). Emerson explains the theological basis for his refusal to celebrate communion, a refusal that cost him his pastorate in the Unitarian church.

• The Poet

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/poet.htm
  The Poet, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on one page for ease of reading and printing.

• The Sovereignty of Ethics

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/sovereignty_of_ethics.htm
  A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.

• Thoreau

  http://eserver.org/thoreau/emerson1.html
  A biographical essay by Emerson, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 1862.

• Transcendentalism

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/transcendentalism.htm
  Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842.

• Uncollected Prose

  http://www.emersoncentral.com/uncollec.htm
  Includes essays originally published in The Dial magazine, and the essay "The Lord's Supper."

 

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