Includes selected works, a short biography and a search feature.
Emerson's eulogy for his friend Henry David Thoreau.
An archive of selected writings from 1938 through 1842, all dealing with nature.
Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, Behavior, Worship, Considerations by the Way, Beauty, Illusions
The Poet, from Essays Second Series: Ralph Waldo Emerson. HTML format, all on one page for ease of reading and printing.
(Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare (Shakspeare), Napoleon, Goethe.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher. This site contains HTML (web-readable) versions of many of Emerson's best-known essays, including a Search function to look for specific words, phrases, or quotations.
A later work of Emerson's (1878) showing his move away from the radical individualism of his younger years and towards a spirituality of relationships.
A sophisticated search facility for finding a specific Emerson text if it's included in this site.
The Lord's Supper (essay). Emerson explains the theological basis for his refusal to celebrate communion, a refusal that cost him his pastorate in the Unitarian church.
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