Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Self-Reliance & Other Essays 

Book contains first two collections of essays,  Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), representing the core thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

First Series Includes well-known Essays such as, “Self-Reliance”, “Compensation”, “Spiritual Laws”, “Love”, “Friendship”, “Prudence”, “Heroism”, “The Over-Soul”, “Circles”, “Intellect” and “Art”.

Second Series includes essays such as “The Poet”, “Experience”, “Character”, “Manners”, “Gifts”, “Nature”, “Politics”, “Nominalist and Realist” and “New England Reformers”.

About the author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist,  lecturer,  philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression.

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking.