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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote several books of essays, commonly associated with transcendentalism and romanticism.

Emerson's words come alive and play off each other in such a way that they mirror the dualities and paradoxes of life. Each reading brings about a new reconciliation with yourself. This complete volume (comprises both volume I and Volume II of Emerson's Essays) includes:

1. SELF-RELIANCE.
2. THE POET.
3. EXPERIENCE.
4. CHARACTER.
5. MANNERS.
6. GIFTS.
7. NATURE.
8. POLITICS.
9. NONIMALIST AND REALIST.
10. NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS.
11. HISTORY.
12. COMPENSATION.
13. SPIRITUAL LAWS.
14. LOVE.
15. FRIENDSHIP.
16. PRUDENCE.
17. HEROISM.
18. THE OVER-SOUL.
19. CIRCLES.
20. INTELLECT.
21. ART.

Some of the most notable essays of these two collections are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics.

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About the Author:

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, "Nature". Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence".

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844-represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet" and "Experience". Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul". Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world."

He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that have followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of fellow Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.