Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

See biography, media, quotes. A famous American essayist and transcendentalist philosopher.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poems 1.2 Published Translator of Poems 1.3 Poems in Manuscript 1.4 Translator of Poems in Manuscript 2 Works about Emerson

[edit] Works

• Nature (1836)
  • Nature, a later edition (date not specified)
• The American Scholar (1837)
• Concord Hymn (1837)
• Divinity School Address (1838)
• Literary Ethics (1838)
• Essays: First Series (1841)
• Man the Reformer (1841)
• The Conservative (1841)
• The Method of Nature (1841)
• The Transcendentalist (1842)
• Essays: Second Series (1844)
• The Young American (1844)
• Poems (1847)
• Representative Men (1850)
• English Traits (1856)
• The Conduct of Life (1860)
• May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
• Society and Solitude (1870)
• Parnassus (1874)
• Letters and Social Aims (1876)
• Selected Poems (1876)
• Poems: Household Edition (1890 and several other editions)
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Riverside Edition (1884)
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Centenary Edition (1904)
  • "George Nidiver"

[edit] Poems

• "Brahma"
• "The Chartist's Complaint"
• "Days"
• "Fame"
• "Grace"
• "The Rommany Girl"
• "Silence"
• "Two Rivers"
• "Waldeinsamkeit"
• "William Rufus and the Jew"
• "The Wind and Stream"

[edit] Published Translator of Poems

• The Phoenix by Hafiz
• Body and Soul by Enweri

[edit] Poems in Manuscript

• Poem on Eloquence
• Written in Sickness
• Γνωθι Σεαυτον "If thou canst bear"
• Woods A Prose Sonnet

[edit] Translator of Poems in Manuscript

• Alas, Alas, that I am betrayed by Michel Angerlo Buonorotti
• The power of a beautiful face lifts me to heaven by Michel Angerlo Buonorotti
• Sweet, sweet, is sleep,—Ah! sweeter, to be stone by Michel Angerlo Buonorotti
• Wo is me woe's me when I think by Michel Angerlo Buonorotti

[edit] Works about Emerson

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John William, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.
• George Parsons Lathrop, “Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.