Self-Reliance and Nature

<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist lecturer philosopher abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. </p><p><br></p><p>He is today seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.</p><p><br></p><p>Collected here in one convenient volume is Ralph Waldo Emerson's First Series and Second Series of essays. </p><p><br></p><p>The collection includes both Self-Reliance and Nature.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Essays - First Series</u></strong></p><ol><li>History</li><li>Self-Reliance</li><li>Compensation</li><li>Spiritual Laws</li><li>Love</li><li>Friendship</li><li>Prudence</li><li>Heroism</li><li>The Over-Soul</li><li>Circles</li><li>Intellect</li><li>Art</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong><u>Essays - Second Series</u></strong></p><ol><li>The Poet</li><li>Experience</li><li>Character</li><li>Manners</li><li>Gifts</li><li>Nature</li><li>Politics</li><li>Nominalist and Realist</li><li>New England Reformers</li></ol>