Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

The Student

1. Prologue

2. Emerson at Harvard

3. The March of Mind

4. Home and Family

5. The Angel of Death

6. Scottish Common Sense

7. The Brothers Emerson

8. The Young Writer

9. The Paradise of Dictionaries and Critics

10. Mme. de Stael and the Other Germany. Divinity Studies

Divinity

11. Pray without Ceasing

12. The Prince of Lipona

13. The Balance Beam

14. Ellen Tucker

15. Ordination and Marriage: Love and Reason

16. We Are What We Know

17. Gerando and the First Philosophy

18. The Wreck of Earthly Good

19. In My Study My Faith Is Perfect

20. Separation

21. A Terrible Freedom

The Inner Light

22. The American Eye

23. I Will Be a Naturalist

24. A White Day in My Years

25. The Instructed Eye

26. Mary Rotch: Life without Choice

27. A Living Leaping Logos

28. A Theory of Animated Nature

29. Each and All

30. Confluence

Nature

31. Lidian

32. The New Jerusalem

33. The Art of Writing. Jakob Boehme

34. Marriage and Concord

35. Alcott and English Literature

36. All in Each: Writing

37. Nature: The Laws of the World

38. Nature: The Apocalypse of the Mind

39. Margaret Fuller

Go Alone

40. The Symposium

41. The Forging of the Anchor

42. We Are Not Children of Time

43. The American Scholar

44. Casting Off

45. Human Culture

46. The Peace Principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears

47. Henry Thoreau

48. Go Alone: Refuse the Great Models

These Flying Days

49. New Books, New Problems

50. Jones Very

51. The Attainable Self

52. Home and Family

53. Writing Essays

54. The Heart Has Its Jubilees

55. Identity and Metamorphosis

56. Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller

57. Pythagoras and Plotinus

58. Osman's Ring: A Work of Ecstasy

59. The Frightful Hollows of Space

Children of the Fire

60. The Dream of Community

61. Children of the Fire

62. Emerson's

63. New Views

64. The World

65. The Young American

66. Emerson's Emancipation Address

67. Essays on Power

68. Ex Oriente Lux

The Natural History of Intellect

69. Representative Men

70. The Lecturer

71. Persia and Poetry

72. The New Domestic Order. Poems

73. The Orchard Keeper

74. I Shall Never Graduate

75. England

76. The Natural History of Intellect

77. Chartism and Revolution

The Science of Liberty

78. Return: Quarrel with Thoreau

79. The Walden Sierras. Quetelet

80. Therienisrn and the Hegelian Moment

81. The West

82. The Matter of Margaret

83. The Tragic

84. The Conduct of Life

85. The Fugitive Slave Act

86. The Science of Liberty

Fame

87. My Platoon

88. Country Walking and the Sea

89. English Traits

90. Fame

91. Whitman

92. The Remedy at the Hour of Need

93. The Power and Terror of Thought

Endings

94. Memory

95. Civil War. Death of Thoreau

96. Terminus

97. May-Day

98. Harvard. California. Fire

99. Philae and Parnassus

100. Fire at the Core of the World

Genealogies

Chronology of the Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Principal Sources

Notes

Index

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