Patrick Paul Christle discusses Emerson's essay and its relation to the mystical tradition of the center.

Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Divinity School Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838

Emerson's eulogy for his friend Henry David Thoreau.

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.

HTML version of the chapters in Emerson's 1856 book on his observations about England.

An archive of selected writings from 1938 through 1842, all dealing with nature.

Plain text file at Project Gutenberg.

Plain text file at Project Gutenberg.

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.

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.

Emerson's essay, with notes and glossary.

Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature.

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.

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.

A collection of Emerson's best-known poems including Threnody, Concord Hymn, Monadnoc, The Rhodora and others.

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online presents a November 1857 article with four poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.)

A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site.

An extract with a brief introduction and footnotes for a few of the less obvious references in the text.

Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions

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, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on one page for ease of reading and printing.

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.

A biographical essay by Emerson, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, 1862.

Essay on Transcendentalism, by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself. From the Dial, 1842.

Includes essays originally published in The Dial magazine, and the essay "The Lord's Supper."