Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
He was a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay 'Nature'.
Contents:
The Conduct of Life
Fate
Power
Wealth
Culture
Behaviour
Worship
Considerations by the Way
Beauty
Illusions

The Essays
History
Self-reliance
Compensation
Spiritual laws
Love
Friendship
Prudence
Heroism
The over-soul
Circles
Intellect
Art

Nature

The American Scholar

May-Day and Other Pieces
May-Day
The Adirondacs
Brahma
Nemesis
Fate
Freedom
Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857
Boston Hymn Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863
Voluntaries
Love and Thought
Una
Boston
God with the Fathers, so with us
Letters
Rubies
Merlin's Song
The Test
Solution
Hymn Sung at the Second Church, at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins
Nature I
Nature II
The Romany Girl
Days
My Garden
The Chartist's Complaint
The Titmouse
The Harp
Seashore
Song of Nature
Two Rivers
Waldeinsamkeit
Terminus
The Nun's Aspiration
April
Maiden Speech of the Aeolian Harp
Cupido
The Past
The Last Farewell Lines Written by the Author's Brother, Edward Bliss Emerson, Whilst Sailing out of Boston Harbor, Bound for the Island of Porto Rico, in 1832
In Memoriam E. B. E.

Elements and Mottoes
Experience
Compensation
Politics
Heroism
Character
Culture
Friendship
Spiritual Laws
Beauty
Manners
Art
Unity
Worship
Prudence
Nature
The Informing Spirit
Circles
Intellect
Gifts
Promise
Caritas
Power
Wealth
Illusions
The Snow-Storm
Concord Hymn