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Self-Reliance and Nature: The Complete First and Second Series of Emerson's Essays

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s essays on selfhood, nature, and society

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Emerson’s essays on selfhood, nature, and society

This volume brings together the complete First and Second Series of Emerson’s essays, including “Self-Reliance” and both essays titled “Nature.” Across subjects ranging from friendship, prudence, and art to politics, reform, and the Over-Soul, the collection maps a wide-ranging body of transcendentalist thought. Its sequence places reflections on individual character alongside questions about social life, intellectual work, and the natural world, offering a substantial introduction to Emerson’s essay writing through the two series in full.

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  • Readers exploring Emerson and American transcendentalism
  • Those interested in essays on individualism, nature, and society
  • Readers seeking the First and Second Series together in one volume

Themes

TranscendentalismIndividualism and societyNatureEthics and characterArt and intellectual life

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Book overview

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

 

He is today seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.

 

Collected here in one convenient volume is Ralph Waldo Emerson's First Series and Second Series of essays.

 

The collection includes both Self-Reliance and Nature.

 

Essays - First Series

1. History

2. Self-Reliance

3. Compensation

4. Spiritual Laws

5. Love

6. Friendship

7. Prudence

8. Heroism

9. The Over-Soul

10. Circles

11. Intellect

12. Art

 

Essays - Second Series

1. The Poet

2. Experience

3. Character

4. Manners

5. Gifts

6. Nature

7. Politics

8. Nominalist and Realist

9. New England Reformers

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