Male : Poet and essayist. Member of transcendentalist group of thinkers. Married Ellen Tucker 1829 (d. of TB 1831). Travelled in Europe 1832-3. Became a public lecturer on his return to America. 1835 married Lydia Jackson.

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Boston, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1803 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 79

Other Work : Pastor. Teacher

Education : Harvard & Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1836-1850
Nature (1836 James Munroe)
The American Scholar (1837)
An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College (1838 Little & Brown, Boston)
An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College (1838 James Munroe)
(Ed) Jones Very : Essays and Poems (1839)
Essays : First Series (1841 James Munroe, Boston) (1841 James Fraser, London)
The Method of Nature : An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adelphi
(1841 Samuel Simpkins, Boston)
The Young American (1844)
Essays : Second Series (1844 James Munroe) (1844 John Chapman, London)
An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation
of the Negroes of the British West Indies (1844 J Munroe, Boston)
Orations, Letters and Addresses (1845 H G Clarke, London)
Poems (1847 James Munroe)
Nature : Addresses and Lectures (1849 Boston)
Representative Men : Seven Lectures (1850 Phillips, Sampson - Boston)

1851-1870
(Ed) Memoirs of Margaret Fuller (1852) - 2 vols. With J F Clarke & W H Channing
English Traits (1856 Phillips, Sampson, Boston)
Miscellanies (1856 Phillips, Sampson)
The Conduct of Life (1860 Ticknor & Fields)
(Ed) Henry David Thoreau : Excursions (1863)
(Ed) Henry David Thoreau : Letters to Various Persons (1865)
Complete Works (1866) - 2 vols
May-Day & other Pieces (1867 Ticknor & Fields) (1867 Routledge)
Prose Works (1868-78) - 3 vols
Society and Solitude : Twelve Chapters (1870 Fields, Osgood) - 1500

1871-1900
A Historical Discourse (1875 W B Clarke, Boston)
Culture, Behavior, Beauty (1875 Osgood)
(Ed) Parnassus : Verse Anthology (1875 Osgood)
Letters and Social Aims (1876 Osgood)
Selected Poems (1876)
Fortune of the Republic (1878 Houghton, Osgood - Boston)
The Preacher (reprinted from the "Unitarian Review") (1880 Ellis, Boston)
The Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson (1883) - 2 vols. Edited by C E Norton
Complete Works (1883-1893) - 12 vols. Edited by Edward Waldo Emerson
(1903-4 Riverside Press) - 600. 12 vols
The Senses and the Soul, and Moral Sentiment in Religion : Two Essays (1884)
Natural History of the Intellect (1893)
Two Unpublished Essays : The Character of Socrates & The Present State of Ethical Philosophy
(1896)
Letters of Emerson to a Friend (1899 Houghton Mifflin)

20thC
Tantalus (1903 Kirkgate Press, PA)
Essays (1906 Doves Press) - 325
Offered in 1995 for £315
Journals 1820-76 (1909-14) - 10 vols. Edited by E W Emerson & W E Forbes
Uncollected Writings (1912 Lamb Publishing, NY) - Edited by Charles E Bigelow
Uncollected Lectures (1932 Wm Edwin Rudge, NY) - 1100. Edited by Clarence Gohdes
Emerson-Clough Letters (1934 Rowfant Club, Cleveland) - 165
Essays : First & Second Series (1934 J H Nash for Ltd Eds Club, SF) - 1500 signed by Nash
Young Emerson Speaks : Unpublished Discourses on Many Subjects (1938)
The Letters of Emerson (1939) - 6 vols. Edited by Ralph L Rusk
Poems (1945 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - Richard & Doris Beer
Mr Emerson's Lectures at the Peabody Institute (1949 Peabody Inst Library, Baltimore)
The Early Lectures (1959-72) - 3 vols. Edited by Whicher, Spiller & Williams
The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks (1960-78) - 16 vols. Edited by W H Gilman
Journals (Ed J Porte) (1982)

READING
Alexander Ireland : Emerson : His Life, Genius & Writings (1882 Simpkin Marshall. 2nd Ed)
Richard Garnett : The Life Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888)
George Willis Cooke : A Bibliography of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1908)
R L Rusk : Ralph Waldo Emerson (1949)
(1967 2nd Ed)
Joel Myerson : Ralph Waldo Emerson - A Descriptive Bibliography (1982 Pittsburgh UP)