This comprehensive collection of Emerson's work includes his Address to Harvard Divinity College, his poetry, and the famous essays «Self-Reliance» (Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist), «Compensation», «The Poet», and his study of the English national character, English Traits, which earned him much admiration in England. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosopher and poet who developed the concept of New England Transcendentalism, a form of mystic idealism that promoted self-reliance, the progress of the spirit, and simple living.
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HISTORY SELF-RELIANCE COMPENSATION SPIRITUAL LAWS LOVE FRIENDSHIP PRUDENCE HEROISM THE OVER-SOUL CIRCLES INTELLECT ART THE POET EXPERIENCE CHARACTER MANNERS GIFTS NATURE POLITICS NOMINALIST AND REALIST NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS REPRESENTATIVE MEN NATURE THE CONDUCT OF LIFE FATE POWER WEALTH CULTURE BEHAVIOR WORSHIP CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY BEAUTY ILLUSIONS