Portable Emerson : New Edition

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author); Bode, Carl (Editor); Cowley, Malcolm (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780140150940
• ISBN10: 0140150943
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-09-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including "History," "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," and "The Poet"; Emersonrs"s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including "Uriel," "The Humble-Bee," and "Give All to Love"; orations, including "The American Scholar," "The Fugitive Slave Law," and "John Brown"; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Carl Bode
A Note on the Selections	xxxiii
Malcolm Cowley
Emerson's Annals	xxxvii
The Transcendentalist	1	(110)
Editor's Note	3	(4)
Nature	7	(44)
The American Scholar	51	(21)
Divinity School Address	72	(20)
The Transcendentalist	92	(19)
Essays: First and Second Series	111	(180)
Editor's Note	113	(2)
History	115	(23)
Self-Reliance	138	(27)
Compensation	165	(22)
Spiritual Laws	187	(22)
The Over-Soul	209	(19)
Circles	228	(13)
The Poet	241	(25)
Experience	266	(25)
Later Essays	291	(104)
Editor's Note	293	(2)
Plato; or, the Philosopher	295	(30)
Napoleon; or, the Man of the World	325	(21)
Fate	346	(29)
Illusions	375	(12)
Society and Solitude	387	(8)
A Yankee Abroad: English Traits	395	(124)
Editor's Note	397	(2)
Land	399	(6)
Race	405	(17)
Ability	422	(17)
Manners	439	(8)
Truth	447	(6)
Character	453	(10)
Cockayne	463	(5)
Wealth	468	(11)
Aristocracy	479	(15)
Universities	494	(9)
Religion	503	(10)
Result	513	(6)
The Yankee Sage	519	(108)
Editor's Note	521	(6)
Letter to President Van Buren	527	(5)
Ezra Ripley, D.D.	532	(9)
The Fugitive Slave Law	541	(17)
Farming	558	(11)
John Brown: Speech at Salem	569	(4)
Thoreau	573	(21)
Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England	594	(27)
Carlyle	621	(6)
The Bard	627	(42)
Editor's Note	629	(2)
Each and All	631	(1)
The Problem	632	(2)
Uriel	634	(2)
Mithridates	636	(1)
Hamatreya	637	(1)
The Rhodora	638	(1)
The Humble-Bee	639	(2)
The Snow-Storm	641	(1)
Woodnotes: I	642	(4)
Fable	646	(1)
Ode	646	(3)
Compensation	649	(1)
Give All to Love	649	(2)
Merlin (I, II)	651	(3)
Bacchus	654	(2)
Threnody	656	(8)
Concord Hymn	664	(1)
Brahma	665	(1)
Days	665	(1)
Two Rivers	665	(1)
Music	666	(1)
Terminus	667	(2)
Further Reading	669