The portable Emerson

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist.

The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including ';History,' ';Self-Reliance,' ';The Over-Soul,' ';Circles,' and ';The Poet'; Emerson's first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including ';Uriel,' ';The Humble-Bee,' and ';Give All to Love'; orations, including ';The American Scholar,' ';The Fugitive Slave Law,' and ';John Brown'; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.