Part One POETRY 1
Potery 3
The Poet 7
Each and All 28
Uriel 29
The Sphinx 31
Hamatreya 34
The Rhodora 36
The Snow-Storm 37
Woodnotes I 38
Ode(Inscribed to W.H.Channing) 40
Eros 43
Give All to Love 43
Merlin Ⅰ 44
Merlin Ⅱ 46
Bacchus 48
Threnody 50
Concord Hymn 57
Brahma 58
Maia 58
Days 59
Terminus 59
Part Two LECTURES AND ADDRESSES 61
The American Scholar 63
Divinity School Address 81
The Transcendentalist 98
Human Culture:Introductory 114
Swedenborg;or,the Mystic 129
Montaigne;or,the Skeptic 157
Part Three EMERSON'S NATURE 177
Nature 180
Commodity 183
Beauty 185
Language 190
Discipline 196
Idealism 202
Spirit 209
Prospects 212
Part Four ESSAYS 219
History 221
Self-Reliance 240
Compensation 263
The Over-Soul 280
Experience 296
Politics 317
Fate 329
Illusions 353
Part Five PEOPLE 363
Ability 365
Thoreau 379