nature and selected essays · emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the former Unitarian minister who became the voice of American Transcendentalism, wrote these essays and addresses between 1836 and 1844. Nature, the American Scholar, the Divinity School Address, Self-Reliance and the Over-Soul call for an original relation to the universe, trust in the self and a God found within; Experience records the doubts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson (Modern Library, 2000). Read in Junior Spring at Torrey Honors: Nature; The American Scholar; An Address; Self-Reliance; The Over-Soul; and Experience.