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.