Ralph Waldo Emerson's diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other
thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry D
avid Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emerson's admirer
s and proteges, while his central text, Nature, singlehandedly engendered an ent
ire spiritual and intellectual movement in transcendentalism. This long-awaited
update-the first in more than thirty years-presents the core of Emerson's writin
gs, including Nature and The American Scholar, along with revelatory journal ent
ries, letters, poetry, and a sermon.
