Self-Reliance and Other Essays: Emerson's Essays First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) an essayist poet and philosopher advanced a transcendental idealism that placed a strong emphasis on independence self-culture and individual expression. The six essays and one address from Essays First Series (1841) and Essays Second Series (1844) that are included in this edition provide a representative sample of his opinions describing that moral idealism as well as a hint of the subsequent scepticism that shaped his ideas. These essays along with the well-known and widely read Harvard Divinity School Address are History Friendship The Over-Soul The Poet and Experience in addition to the renowned title piece.