churches that Bloom says have become in the United States more gnostic than their European counterparts. In The Western Canon, Bloom compares Emerson to Michel de Montaigne: "The only equivalent reading experience that I know is to reread endlessly in the notebooks and journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American version of Montaigne." Several of Emerson's poems were included in Bloom's The Best Poems of the English Language, although he wrote that none of the poems are as outstanding as the best of Emerson's essays, which Bloom listed as "Self-Reliance", "Circles", "Experience", and "nearly all of Conduct of Life". In his belief that line lengths, rhythms, and phrases are determined by breath, Emerson's poetry foreshadowed the theories of Charles Olson. Namesakes In May 2006, 168 years after Emerson delivered his "Divinity School Address", Harvard Divinity School announced the establishment of the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Professorship. Harvard has also named a building, Emerson Hall (1900), after him. The Emerson String Quartet, formed in 1976, took their name from him. The Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize is awarded annually to high school students for essays on historical subjects. The Emerson Collective is a company devoted to social change. Selected works Collections Essays: First Series (1841) Essays: Second Series (1844) Poems (1847) Nature, Addresses and Lectures (1849) Representative Men (1850) English Traits (1856) The Conduct of Life (1860) May-Day and Other Pieces (1867) Society and Solitude (1870) Natural History of the Intellect: the last lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871) Letters and Social Aims (1875) Individual essays "Nature" (1836) "Self-Reliance" (Essays: First Series) "Compensation" (First Series) "The Over-Soul" (First Series) "Circles" (First Series) "The Poet" (Essays: Second Series) "Experience" (Essays: Second Series) "Politics" (Second Series) "Saadi" in the Atlantic Monthly (1864) "The American Scholar" "New England Reformers" "History" "Fate" Poems "Concord Hymn" "The Rhodora" "Brahma" "Uriel" Letters Letter to Martin Van Buren The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834–72 See also American philosophy List of American philosophers Notes References Mudge, Jean McClure (ed.) (2015). Mr. Emerson's Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Open Book. Slater, Joseph (ed.) (1964). The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle. New York: Columbia University Press. Further reading Sacks, Kenneth S. (2003). Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance. Princeton: Princeton University Press. . Archival sources Ralph Waldo Emerson papers, 1814–1867 (25 boxes) are housed at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University Finding aid