Vol. 7 — October 2026
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

This 1856 Boston edition gathers Ralph Waldo Emerson's first book, Nature, published in 1836, together with the addresses and lectures he delivered between 1837 and 1844.

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This 1856 Boston edition gathers Ralph Waldo Emerson's first book, Nature, published in 1836, together with the addresses and lectures he delivered between 1837 and 1844. Nature, made up of an introduction and eight short chapters, presents the natural world as a language and symbol of spirit. It is followed by The American Scholar, the Divinity School Address of 1838, Literary Ethics, The Method of Nature, Man the Reformer, the Lecture on the Times, The Conservative, The Transcendentalist and The Young American. Together these pieces contain the core of Emerson's early thought on nature, intellectual independence and religion.

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