Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803 - 1882

Titles on this disk:

• introduction: Essays of Montaigne, Vol. 1
• introduction: Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 1
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1 (Nature, Addresses, and Lectures)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2 (Essays. First Series)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 3 (Essays. Second Series)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 4 (Representative Men)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 5 (English Traits)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 6 (The Conduct of Life)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 7 (Society and Solitude)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 8 (Letters and Social Aims)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9 (Poems)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 10 (Lectures and Biographical Sketches)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 11 (Miscellanies)
• author: The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 12 (Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers)

Quotation:

• (14 December, 2009) Emerson on the right of self-ownership of slaves to themselves and to their labor (1863)

About this person:

Emerson was a famous writer, orator, and abolitionist. He studied at Harvard Divinity School but made his living as a school master and then as a popular lecturer. He founded the philosophy of transcendentalism.