Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature.

Essays: First Series, is a series of essays published in 1841, concerning transcendentalism.

This eBook contains:

"History"

"Self-Reliance"

"Compensation"

"Spiritual Laws"

"Love"

"Friendship"

"Prudence"

"Heroism"

"The Over-Soul"

"Circles"

"Intellect"

"Art"

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