Nonfiction · 1841
Essays
First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s first collection of essays was published in 1841 and contains the pieces on which his reputation rests: “Self-Reliance”, “Compensation”, “The Over-Soul”, “Circles”, “Friendship”, “History” and the rest — twelve in all. Grown out of his lectures, they are written to be read aloud, in sentences that are remembered as sayings.
The twelve essays keep the habits of the lecture hall they came from: assertion rather than argument, and the sentence built to be carried away on its own. What holds them together is a single claim — that the authority a reader looks for outside himself is already in him, and that books, institutions and creeds are worth exactly what they return to it. “Self-Reliance” states the case, “Compensation” and “Circles” work out its consequences, and “The Over-Soul” gives it a metaphysics.
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1803–1882 · Victorian
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