Directory:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American poet, lecturer, and essayist.

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American Transcendentalism

http://www.eserver.org/thoreau/amertran.html Excerpt from Ian Frederick Finseth's 'Liquid Fire within Me: Language, Self, and Society in Transcendentalism and Early Evangelicalism, 1820-1860' (1995). Hypertext annotations. Explores the ideas of Emerson, Channing, Brownson, and others.

American Writers

http://www.americanwriters.org/index_short_list.asp Web site of the C-SPAN series that "looks at the lives and works of selected American writers who have chronicled, reflected upon, or influenced the course of our nation." Includes complete videos of programs (in RealPlayer), lesson plans, and more.

Contents of Reading About the World, Vol. 2

http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/contents_vol_2.html Selections from 'Reading About the World,' Vol. 2 (Harcourt Brace Custom Pub. 1999), an excellent anthology of literary and philosophical texts for students of world civilizations and literature from the Northern European Renaissance to the present.

Environmental Ethics - Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.ecoethics.net/ops/emer.htm Electronic texts of a selection of Emerson's writings, including his central addresses on transcendentalism. Unannotated; no bibliographical information supplied.

Making of America - Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa&idno=AJD6431.0001.001 Scanned pages from George Lunt's 'Four Papers from the Boston Courier for 1858' (Little, Brown, 1858) criticizing Parker, Emerson, Curtis, abolition, and the woman suffrage movement. From the inter-university Making of America digital library.

Making of America - Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Amos Bronson Alcott

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa&idno=ACJ8678.0001.001 Scanned, searchable pages of Amos Bronson Alcott's 'Ralph Waldo Emerson; An Estimate of His Character and Genius' (A. Williams, 1882). From the inter-university Making of America digital library of primary sources in U.S. social history.

New England Transcendentalism

http://www.concordma.com/magazine/nov98/trans.html Excellent short essay on the intellectual and religious context of transcendentalism, characterizing its roots in reaction to Unitarianism and the contributions of Emerson and others. Bibliographical sources; illustrations.

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=8 Texts of some 20 poems by Emerson. Unannotated; no bibliographical source citations. Reproduces a portrait of Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts

http://www.jjnet.com/emerson/ Searchable collection of Emerson's writings, including 'Essays,' first series (1841) and second series (1844); 'Representative Men' (1850); and some uncollected essays from 'The Dial.' Discussion forum; further transcendentalism resources.

Representative Men, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/EMERSON/repmen.html Text of Emerson's 'Representative Men' (1850; source edition unidentified). From a hypertext library of primary sources at the University of Virginia's American Studies Web site.

Self-Reliance (1841)

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/14.htm Text of Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance," with an introductory note and source edition data. From Information USA--a Web site of the U.S. Department of State International Information Programs.

THE CAMELOT PROJECT: MENU OF AUTHORS

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/AUTHMENU.htm Database of electronic texts dealing with the "matter of Britain," dating from the 6th century through the 20th. A portion of the resources made available by the Camelot Project at the Univ. of Rochester.

The Oxford Book of English Verse

http://www.bartleby.com/101/ Complete electronic edition of the 'Oxford Book of English Verse,' edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Clarendon Press 1919). From Bartleby.com, an electronic publisher of classic works. Searchable. Name: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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