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Born in May 25, 1803 / Died in April 27, 1882 / United States / English

Bibliography

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BOOKS

  • Nature, anonymous (Boston: James Munroe, 1836).
  • An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge ["The American Scholar Address"] (Boston: James Munroe, 1837); republished as Man Thinking. An Oration (London: C. E. Mudie, 1843).
  • An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge ["The Divinity School Address"] (Boston: James Munroe, 1838).
  • An Oration, Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College ["Literary Ethics"] (Boston: Little, Brown, 1838).
  • Essays (Boston: James Munroe, 1841; London: James Fraser, 1841); republished as Essays: First Series (Boston: James Munroe, 1847).
  • The Method of Nature. An Oration, Delivered Before the Society of the Adelphi (Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1841; London: C. E. Mudie, 1844).
  • Nature; an Essay. And Lectures on the Times (London: H. G. Clarke, 1844); enlarged as Nature, An Essay: Lectures on the Times; and on War (London: George Slater, 1850, unauthorized).
  • Orations, Lectures, and Addresses (London: H. G. Clarke, 1844; enlarged edition, London: George Slater, 1849, unauthorized).
  • Essays: Second Series (Boston: James Munroe, 1844; London: John Chapman, 1844).
  • An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts . . . on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies ["Emancipation in the British West Indies"] (Boston: James Munroe, 1844; London: John Chapman, 1844).
  • Poems (London: John Chapman, 1847; Boston: James Munroe, 1847).
  • Nature; Addresses, and Lectures (Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe, 1849); republished as Miscellanies; Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856; London: Macmillan, 1884).
  • Representative Men: Seven Lectures (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1850; London: John Chapman, 1850).
  • English Traits (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856; London: Routledge, 1856).
  • The Conduct of Life (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860; London: Smith, Elder, 1860).
  • May-Day and Other Pieces (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867; London: Routledge, 1867).
  • Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters (Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870; London: Sampson, Low & Marston, 1870).
  • Letters and Social Aims (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1876; London: Chatto & Windus, 1876).
  • Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878).
  • Miscellanies (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884; London: Routledge, 1884).
  • Lectures and Biographical Sketches (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884; London: Routledge, 1884).
  • Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893; London: Routledge, 1893).
  • The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 10 volumes, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1909-1914).
  • Uncollected Writings, edited by Charles C. Bigelow (New York: Lamb, 1912).
  • The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Stephen E. Whicher, Robert E. Spiller, and Wallace E. Williams, 3 volumes (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959-1972).
  • The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 16 volumes, edited by William H. Gilman and others (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960-1982).
  • The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Ralph H. Orth and others (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986).
  • The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4 volumes, edited by Albert J. von Frank and others (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989-1992).
  • The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3 volumes, edited by Orth and others (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990-1994).

Editions and Collections

  • The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, centenary edition, 12 volumes, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903-1904).
  • The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 volumes to date, edited by Alfred R. Ferguson and others (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971- ).
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations, edited by Harold Bloom and Paul Kane (New York: Library of America, 1994).
  • Emerson's Antislavery Writings, edited by Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
  • The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2 volumes, edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).

OTHER

  • Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 4 volumes, edited by Emerson (Boston: James Munroe, 1838-1839).
  • Jones Very, Essays and Poems, edited by Emerson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1839).
  • Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 2 volumes, edited by Emerson with James Freeman Clarke and William Henry Channing (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1852); republished as 3 volumes (London: Richard Bentley, 1852).
  • Henry David Thoreau, Excursions, edited, with an introduction, by Emerson (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863).
  • Thoreau, Letters to Various Persons, edited by Emerson (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865).
  • Parnassus [a poetry anthology], edited by Emerson (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875).

LETTERS

  • The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 10 volumes, edited by Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939-1995).
  • The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, edited by Joseph Slater (New York: Columbia University Press, 1964).



The majority of Ralph Waldo Emerson's papers--including letters, journals, literary manuscripts, and personal account books--are deposited in the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association collection at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.