Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882):

Readings: February 12-19, 1998 in Whicher, Riverside Edition

Lectures and Essays: Nature (pp, 21-56), American Scholar (63-80), Divinity School Address (*100-16), Self-Reliance (147-168), Circles (168-178), The Transcendentalist (192-206), The Poet (222-241), Experience (*254-274), Fate (330-352), Thoreau (379-95). Papers: 2/12, 2/19 (* = corrected data)

Poems: Each and All, 413; Sphinx, 420; Hamatraya, 437; Ode, 439; Merlin, 447; Days, 451; Brahma, 451. Paper: 2/19 (optional)

Journal Entries: (Note: Topical clusters may interrupt chronology) 4/18/24(*6), 1/1/34(16#), 6/4/36(*17), 2/1/35(*19), *8/1/35(20#), 11/3/38(95#)(two), 5/28/39(*135), 4/7/40(*139), 6/27/39(*141), *11/21/40(142), 6/40(*143), Summer 41(*185), Dec ? 41(185), 3/42(*210), 11/5/45(*211), 4/1?/42(*212)(two), 9/42(*213). 9/30/42(214#). Papers: 2/12, 2/19(* = corrected data; # thanks to Laurey Czekaj for these emendations)

Electronic Resources:


Journals and Misc. Notebooks, ed William Gilman et al, 16 v, 1960-86
Joel Porte, Emerson in His Journals, 1982
Lectures, ed Stephen Whicher et al, 3 v 1959-1971
Letters, ed Ralph Rusk, 1939
Life, Ralph Rusk, 1949
Selections: Whicher (1957), Gilman (1975)
Individual Editions: Nature (Sealts, 1969)
Criticism: Eric Carlson (1979)
Interpretations: Sherman Paul, Hyat H. Waggoner, Joel Porte, Sacvan Bercovich, Richard Porier
Reference Guides: Frederick Carpenter (1953), Floyd Stovall in Woodress, Eight American Authors (1971)
Secondary works:
Works, ed Edward Emerson, 12v, 1903-04
Collected Works, ed. Alfred Ferguson et al, 1971--