Emerson (eBook)

Preface

The Student
1. Prologue. 2. Emerson at Harvard. 3. The
March of Mind. 4. Home and Family.
5. The Angel of Death. 6. Scottish Common
Sense. 7 The Brothers Emerson. 8. The Young
Writer. 9. The Paradise of Dictionaries and
Critics. 10. Mme. de Stael and the Other
Germany. Divinity Studies.

Divinity
11. Pray without Ceasing. 12. The Prince of
Lipona. 13. The Balance Beam. 14. Ellen
Tucker. 15. Ordination and Marriage: Love
and Reason. 16. We Are What We Know.
17. Gerando and the First Philosophy. 18. The
Wreck of Earthly Good. 19. In My Study My
Faith Is Perfect. 20. Separation.
21. A Terrible Freedom.

The Inner Light
22. The American Eye. 23. I Will Be a
Naturalist. 24. A White Day in My Years.
25. The Instructed Eye. 26. Mary Rotch: Life
without Choice. 27. A Living Leaping
Logos. 28. A Theory of Animated Nature.
29. Each and All. 30. Confluence.

Nature
31. Lidian. 32. The New Jerusalem. 33. The
Art of Writing. Jakob Boehme. 34. Marriage
and Concord. 35. Alcott and English
Literature. 36. All in Each: Writing
Nature. 37. Nature: The Laws of the
World. 38. Nature: The Apocalypse of the
Mind. 39. Margaret Fuller.

Go Alone
40. The Symposium. 41. The Forging of the
Anchor. 42. We Are Not Children of Time.
43. The American Scholar. 44. Casting
Off. 45. Human Culture. 46. The Peace
Principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
47. Henry Thoreau. 48. Go Alone: Refuse the
Great Models.

These Flying Days
49. New Books, New Problems. 50. Jones
Very. 51. The Attainable Self. 52. Home and
Family. 53. Writing Essays. 54. The Heart
Has Its Jubilees. 55. Identity and
Metamorphosis. 56. Brook Farm and Margaret
Fuller. 57. Pythagoras and Plotinus.
58. Osman s Ring: A Work of Ecstasy. 59. The
Frightful Hollows of Space.

Children of the Fire
60. The Dream of Community. 61. Children of
the Fire. 62. Emerson's Dial. 63. New
Views. 64. The World. 65. The Young
American. 66. Emerson s Emancipation
Address. 67. Essays on Power. 68. Ex Oriente
Lux.

The Natural History of Intellect
69. Representative Men. 70. The
Lecturer. 71. Persia and Poetry. 72. The New
Domestic Order. Poems. 73. The Orchard
Keeper. 74. I Shall Never Graduate.
75. England. 76. The Natural History of
Intellect. 77. Chartism and Revolution.

The Science of Liberty
78. Return: Quarrel with Thoreau.
79. The Walden Sierras. Quetelet.
80. Therienism and the Hegelian Moment.
81. The West. 82. The Matter of
Margaret. 83. The Tragic. 84. The Conduct
of Life. 85. The Fugitive Slave Act. 86. The
Science of Liberty.

Fame
87. My Platoon. 88. Country Walking and the
Sea. 89. English Traits. 90. Fame.
91. Whitman. 92. The Remedy at the Hour of
Need. 93. The Power and Terror of Thought.

Endings
94. Memory. 95. Civil War. Death of
Thoreau. 96. Terminus. 97. May-Day.
98. Harvard. California. Fire. 99. Philae and
Parnassus. 100. Fire at the Core of the World.

Genealogies
Chronology of the Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Principal Sources
Notes
Index
Illustrations