The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including History, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, and The Poet; Emersons first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including Uriel, The Humble-Bee, and Give All to Love; orations, including The American Scholar, The Fugitive Slave Law, and John Brown; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.