Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works

Essays and Collections

• Nature (1836)
  • Nature, Addresses and Lectures (transcription project)
• The American Scholar (1837)
• Concord Hymn (1837)
• Divinity School Address (1838)
• Literary Ethics (1838)
• Essays (1841); revised and reissued as Essays: First Series (1847)
• 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)
• Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1868)
• 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"

Poems

• "The Rhodora"
• "Brahma"
• "Days"
• "The Chartist's Complaint"
• "Fame"
• "Grace"
• "The Rommany Girl"
• "Silence"
• "Two Rivers"
• "Waldeinsamkeit"
• "William Rufus and the Jew"
• "The Wind and Stream"
• "The Mountain and the Squirrel" (quoted in An Argosy of Fables (1921))

Published Translator of Poems

• The Phoenix by Hafiz
• Body and Soul by Enweri

Poems in Manuscript

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

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

Works about Emerson

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• “Ralph Waldo Emerson” in Littell's Living Age, v. 1, no. 1.
• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• George Parsons Lathrop, “Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• William Peterfield Trent, “Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Emerson, Ralph Waldo” by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• "Emerson" in Studies of a Biographer vol. 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen

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.