The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Key Takeaways

Under Consideration — to be added.

Connections

People: Ralph Waldo Emerson — author. Emerson recurs across the corpus well beyond this volume: his 1870 Society and Solitude essay “Books” is the spine of Read Old Books (“Never read any book that is not a year old”), and his self-reliance ethic underwrites Henry David Thoreau’s argument in Walden.

Books: Walden — the other Transcendentalist volume on the shelf; the two are read as a pair.

Concepts: Transcendentalism · Self-Reliance · Reading.

Note on gaps: flagged in the Love Letter To America - Research notes as one of several on-theme books that “came back as empty stubs (no usable highlights)” — worth a Readwise re-export before it gets mined for an essay.