Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works

Essays and Collections

• 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) (Commons category)
• English Traits (1856)
• "Solitude and Society" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (December, 1857)
• "Books" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (3) (January, 1858)
• "Persian Poetry" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (6) (April, 1858)
• "Eloquence" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (4) (September, 1858)
• 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)
• Parnassus (1874)
• Letters and Social Aims (1876)

• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Riverside Edition, edited by Edward W. Emerson (1884) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6, IA 7, IA 8, IA 9, IA 10, IA 11, IA 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) IA 1, IA 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