The American Renaissance

Twelve essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “History” and “Self-Reliance” to “Art”, first published in Boston in 1841 and revised by him for the New Edition of 1847, in which most of the essays gained a verse motto of…

Eight essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Poet” and “Experience” to “Nominalist and Realist”, with the lecture “New England Reformers”, first published in Boston in 1844 and revised by him for the Second Edition of…

Emerson's first book, Nature (1836), collected in 1849 with nine addresses and lectures he gave between 1837 and 1844, among them “The American Scholar” and the Divinity School address.

Seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the uses of great men and on six of them, Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare, Napoleon and Goethe, as the philosopher, the mystic, the skeptic, the poet, the man of the…

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and…

Ralph Waldo Emerson's account of England and the English, drawn from his visits of 1833 and 1847–48: their land, race, manners, wealth, aristocracy, universities, religion and literature, with his meetings with…

Nine essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Fate” to “Illusions”, each headed by a verse motto of his own, published in Boston in December 1860.

Blood's lecture on Napoleon, printed privately at Amsterdam, New York, in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War: a rhapsodic life of “the Soldier of Destiny” from Corsica to St.

Twelve essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1870. Most grew out of lectures he had given in the preceding years.

Eleven essays and addresses by Ralph Waldo Emerson, put together from his manuscripts with the help of James Elliot Cabot and published in 1876 without a preface.

Specimen Days first appeared in 1882 within a volume entitled Specimen Days & Collect, published by Rees Welsh and Company in Philadelphia.

This book contains a compilation of Henry David Thoreau's works about slavery and civil reform.

An anonymous eight-page pamphlet that Blood printed and sold himself at Amsterdam, New York: “a sketch of the nature, process and status of philosophy”, from Heraclitus to Hegel, which finds contradiction at the root of…

Blood's last book, published the year after his death: a pluralist's quarrel with the monists and idealists from Parmenides to Hegel, closing on the “anæsthetic revelation” he had first described in 1874, which William…