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Harvard Classics, Vol. 5
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
—Self-Reliance
Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Harvard Classics, Vol. 5

Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The combination of Emerson’s best essays with those that made him the most esteemed American in the Old World form the foundation of the American Renaissance and epitomize the corpus of this country’s greatest thinker.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

 

Introductory Note

Essays

  1. The American Scholar
  2. An Address
  3. Man the Reformer
  4. Self-Reliance
  5. Compensation
  6. Friendship
  7. Heroism
  8. The Over-Soul
  9. Circles
  10. The Poet
  11. Character
  12. Manners
  13. Gifts
  14. Nature
  15. Politics
  16. New England Reformers
  17. Worship
  18. Beauty

English Traits

  1. First Visit to England
  2. Voyage to England
  3. Land
  4. Race
  5. Ability
  6. Manners
  7. Truth
  8. Character
  9. Cockayne
  10. Wealth
  11. Aristocracy
  12. Universities
  13. Religion
  14. Literature
  15. The “Times”
  16. Stonehenge
  17. Personal
  18. Result
  19. Speech at Manchester