[Ralph Waldo Emerson][Transcendentalism] Worth, J. Estes. Unpublished biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, circa 1950s, a mid-twentieth-century scholarly interpretation of Emerson grounded primarily in close reading of his journals and early intellectual development. Produced by a Boston University pharmacology professor. The manuscript concentrates on Emerson’s Unitarian and Transcendentalist networks, his education.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Thoughts on the Religion of the Middle Ages,” 1822, the earliest known publication by the American essayist and philosopher who later became a central figure in the intellectual movement associated with Transcendentalism. Written when Emerson was nineteen years old, the essay appeared in the Boston periodical The.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Letters and Social Aims, 1876 collection of essays representing Emerson’s final published volume during his lifetime and documenting late nineteenth century American Transcendentalist thought on culture, individuality, and intellectual life. The work brings together earlier essays from the 1840s with later material prepared in collaboration with his.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. English Traits, 1856 first edition presenting Emerson’s analysis of British society, culture, and intellectual life following his travels and lectures in England during the late 1840s. Drawing on direct encounters with leading literary and political figures, the work situates American Transcendentalist thought within a transatlantic context, examining.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Saadi.” July 1864. Published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1864, this essay reflects Emerson’s long engagement with Persian literature and the moral philosophy of Saadi of Shiraz. Written during the Civil War, the essay situates Persian ethical reflection within Emerson’s broader transcendentalist inquiry, asserting cross-cultural continuities in.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Boston Hymn” (1863), printed in the February 1863 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, constitutes one of the earliest periodical appearances of his poetic response to President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and stands as a direct literary intervention in the political crisis of slavery and civil war. Written at.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Tributes to Theodore Parker, Comprising the Exercises at the Music Hall on Sunday, June 17, 1860; With the Proceedings of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention at the Melodeon, May 31. 1860. Issued months before Abraham Lincoln’s election and the outbreak of the Civil War, this 1860 pamphlet.....
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. "We Love the Venerable House" in "A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins, over the Second Congregational Church in Boston, December 4, 1833". Boston: James W. Burditt, 1833. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pages. Marks the second ever appearance of Ralph Waldo Emerson's early hymn.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to a friend, 1838-1853. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First edition. Edited by Charles Eliot Norton. 81 pages. Original green cloth boards. 7.25 x 5 in. Gilt detail to front cover and spine. “The letters and fragments of.....
A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson. James Cabot. The Riverside Press: Cambridge, 1887. First edition. Volumes I and II. Original marbled boards with half calf. Gilt title on spine. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. 382 pages and 303 pages respectively. First volume with black and white portrait of Emerson inside front.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. American Transcendentalist Author, Poet & Philosopher (1803-1822). Original carte-de-viste photograph portrait of Emerson. In very good condition. His writings reflected what Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence," with its focus on the individual rather than the pressures of society.
Stereoview Photo of Ralph Waldo Emerson's House in Concord, Massachusetts. Stereo view cards has two pictures of the house, mounted for parallel viewing, on 7 x 3.5 inch heavy cardstock. Very Good condition.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Reception and Entertainment of the Chinese Embassy, by the City of Boston (1868) records his formal address delivered during the visit of the Chinese diplomatic mission to Boston and documents a significant episode in early United States–China relations during Reconstruction. Published the same year as the Burlingame.....
