Bibliography
Books published during lifetime
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*Nature.*Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836.
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*Essays.*Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.
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*Essays: Second Series.*Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.
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*Poems.*London: Chapman Brothers, 1846 (first American edition; Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847).
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*Nature: Addresses and Lectures.*Bostaon and Cambridge: james Munroe and Company, 1849.
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*Representative Men: Seven Lectures.*Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.
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*English Traits.*Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856.
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*The Conduct of Life.*Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
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*May-Day and Other Pieces.*Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
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*Society and Solitude.*Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870.
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*Letters and Social Aims.*Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876.
Editions of Works
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*Bosco, Ronald & Joel Myerson, eds. 2003. The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson.*Athens: University of Georgia Press.
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*Gilman, William H. et al. eds. 1960-82. The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 16 vols.*Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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*Porte, Joel, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. 1983.*New York: Library of America.
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*Rusk, Ralph L., ed. Letters, 6 vols. 1939.*New York: Columbia University Press. Eleanor Tilton, ed. Vols. 7-8. 1990, 1991.
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*Slater, Joseph, ed. 1964. Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle.*New York: Columbia University Press.
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*Spiller, Robert, et al. eds. 1971- .The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.*Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Biographies
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*Allen, Gay Wilson. 1981. Waldo Emerson.*New York: Viking.
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*Baker, Carlos. 1996. Emerson among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait.*New York: Viking.
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*Barish, Evelyn. 1989. Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy.*Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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*Cayton, Mary Kupiec. 1989. Emerson’s Emergence.*Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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*Richardson, Robert D. Jr. 1995. Emerson: The Mind on Fire.*Berkeley: University of California Press.
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*Whicher, Stephen E. 1953. Freedom and Fate: The Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson.*Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Critical Studies
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*Bishop, Jonathan. 1964. Emerson on the Soul.*Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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*Buell, Lawrence. 1973. Literary Transcendentalism.*Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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*Ed. 1993. Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays.*Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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Cavell, Stanley. Conditions Handsome and UnhandsomeChicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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*2004. Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes.*Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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*Chai, Leon. 1987. The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance.*Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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*Ellison, Julie. 1984. Emerson’s Romantic Style.*Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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*Leer, David Van. 1986. Emerson’s Epistemology.*Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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*Packer, Barbara. 1982. Emerson’s Fall.*New York: Continuum.
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*Poirier, Richard. 1992. Poetry and Pragmatism.*Cambridge, MA: harvard University Press.
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*Porte, Joel & Saundra Morris, eds. 1999. The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson.*Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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*Sealts, Merton M. and Alfred R. Ferguson, eds. 1979. Emerson’s Nature: Origin, Growth, Meaning, 2nd ed.*Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.
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*Yoder, R. A. 1978. Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America.*Berkeley: University of California Press.
