The Portable Emerson

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"; Emerson's 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.