Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803 - 1882

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a famous writer, orator, and abolitionist. He studied at Harvard Divinity School but made his living as a school master and then as a popular lecturer. He founded the philosophy of transcendentalism.

In The Library:

• introduction: Essays of Montaigne, Vol. 1 (1580)
• introduction: Plutarch’s Morals, 5 vols. (1878)
• introduction: Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 1 (1878)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 12 vols. (Fireside Edition). (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1 (Nature, Addresses, and Lectures) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2 (Essays. First Series) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 3 (Essays. Second Series) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 4 (Representative Men) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 5 (English Traits) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 6 (The Conduct of Life) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 7 (Society and Solitude) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 8 (Letters and Social Aims) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 10 (Lectures and Biographical Sketches) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 11 (Miscellanies) (1909)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 12 (Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers) (1909)

Quotations:

• Emerson on the right of self-ownership of slaves to themselves and to their labor (1863) (12 January, 2010)
• Emerson on selecting the right gift to give at Christmas and New Year (1844) (2 January, 2011)