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

He was a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature".

Essays

The Conduct of Life

Fate

Power

Wealth

Culture

Behaviour

Worship

Considerations by the Way

Beauty

Illusions

Essays: First Series

History.

Self-reliance.

Compensation.

Spiritual laws.

Love.

Friendship.

Prudence.

Heroism.

The over-soul.

Circles.

Intellect.

Art.

Nature

The American Scholar

Poems

May-Day and Other Pieces

MAY-DAY

THE ADIRONDACS

BRAHMA

NEMESIS

FATE

FREEDOM

ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857

BOSTON HYMN READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863

VOLUNTARIES

LOVE AND THOUGHT

UNA

BOSTON

GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,

LETTERS

RUBIES

MERLIN’S SONG

THE TEST

SOLUTION

HYMN SUNG AT THE SECOND CHURCH, AT THE ORDINATION OF REV. CHANDLER ROBBINS

NATURE I

NATURE II

THE ROMANY GIRL

DAYS

MY GARDEN

THE CHARTIST’S COMPLAINT

THE TITMOUSE

THE HARP

SEASHORE

SONG OF NATURE

TWO RIVERS

WALDEINSAMKEIT

TERMINUS

THE NUN’S ASPIRATION

APRIL

MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP

CUPIDO

THE PAST

THE LAST FAREWELL

LINES WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR’S BROTHER, EDWARD BLISS EMERSON, WHILST SAILING OUT OF BOSTON HARBOR, BOUND FOR THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO, IN 1832

IN MEMORIAM E. B. E.

Elements and Mottoes

EXPERIENCE

COMPENSATION

POLITICS

HEROISM

CHARACTER

CULTURE

FRIENDSHIP

SPIRITUAL LAWS

BEAUTY

MANNERS

ART

UNITY

WORSHIP

PRUDENCE

NATURE

THE INFORMING SPIRIT

CIRCLES

INTELLECT

GIFTS

PROMISE

CARITAS

POWER

WEALTH

ILLUSIONS

The Snow-Storm

Concord Hymn