num_pages: 670
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Portable Emerson
titlecomplete: The Portable Emerson
characters: Ralph Waldo Emerson
genres: American, Reference, Poetry, Philosophy, Spirituality, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Classics
ratings_count: 457
publisher: Penguin Books