The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)

About this book

This volume edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley presents the essential Emerson selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays including History Self-Reliance The Over-Soul Circles and The Poet; Emersons first book Nature in its entirety; twenty-two poems including Uriel The Humble-Bee and Give All to Love; orations including The American Scholar The Fugitive Slave Law and John Brown; English Traits complete; and biographical essays on Plato Napoleon Henry David Thoreau Thomas Carlyle and others.