title: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
description: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer, whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications<i> Essays</i> and <i>Nature</i>.
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  RALPH WALDO EMERSON:
  Essays and Journals
  
  RALPH WALDO
  EMERSON
  Essays and Journals
  o
  •
  o
  Selected and with an Introduction hy
  LEWIS MUMFORD
  FIRST EDITION
  of
  The PROGPIAMMED CLASSICS
  Published by
  Communication & Studies Inc.
  Atlanta, Georgia
  
  COPYRIGHT ©
  1968 BY NELSON DOUBLEDAY,
  INC.
  All Rights Reserved
  Excerpts
  from
  The
  Journals
  of
  Ralph
  Waldo Emerson
  edited
  by
  E. W.
  Emer-
  son
  and Waldo
  E,
  Forbes.
  Reprinted
  by
  permission of the publisher, Houghton Mif-
  flin Company.
  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  CONTENTS
  Introduction
  9
  The American Scholar
  31
  Address to the Divinity Class
  49
  Essays:
  First Series
  History
  69
  Self-Reliance
  89
  Compensation
  112
  Spiritual Laws
  130
  Love
  149
  Friendship
  160
  Prudence
  174
  Heroism
  185
  The Over-Soul
  196
  Circles
  212
  Intellect
  223
  Art
  235
  Essays: Second Series
  The Poet
  247
  Experience
  268
  Character
  289
  Manners
  303
  Gifts
  322
  
  RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  Nature
  326
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