Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why it’s on the list: Emerson’s Essays: First and Second Series — “Self-Reliance,” “Compensation,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” “Experience,” “Nature” and the rest. The transcendentalist core.

Where I heard about it

• The Waynesboro Book Store — where my copy came from. I have read and quoted from it (see Essays (Emerson)) but want to work through the collection properly.

About this edition

This sits in the anti-library as well as the library. There is already a book page with 47 highlights, but the reading was partial: the source recorded there is my review of Nature specifically, one piece of the collection, and the highlights are weighted toward it. So the read half lives on the book page and the intent to work through the whole collection lives here. The two pages are deliberately kept separate rather than merged: the book page is the record of what I have already pulled out of it, and this is the queue entry.

Connections

• Essays (Emerson) — the book page: 47 highlights, mostly from Nature.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson — the author.
• Waynesboro Book Store — where the copy came from.