Ralph Waldo Emerson 
The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 

This comprehensive collection of Emerson’s work includes his Address to Harvard Divinity College, his poetry, and the famous essays ‘Self-Reliance’ (Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist), ‘Compensation’, ‘The Poet’, and his study of the English national character, English Traits, which earned him much admiration in England. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosopher and poet who developed the concept of New England Transcendentalism, a form of mystic idealism that promoted self-reliance, the progress of the spirit, and simple living.

Table of Content

Address to Harvard Divinity College, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

About the author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. He was also a leader of the Transcendentalist movement.