"The American Scholar" is a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work "Nature" in which he...

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This is the text of the essay "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses...

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Discover the complete text of Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture, "Literary Ethics," delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College in 1838.

Full text of the poem "Song of Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

Full text of the poem "The Problem" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1882).

Emerson's famous essay emerging from the Transcendentalist period that celebrates unfettered individualism.