Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."

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Introduction

"Ralph Waldo Emerson." Biographical introduction. Unitarian Universalist Association.

Fritts, Roger. "Emerson's Unitarian Transcendentalism." On the dispute in the 1830s among the Unitarians between the liberal dissidents and the traditionalists, Emerson's departures from Kant, and Emerson's articulation of the Transcendentalist position. The term "Transcendentalism" is explained with admirable clarity. Sermon, 2003.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson." Poetry Foundation. An extended, excellent biographical account of Emerson, his times, the evolution of his ideas, and his work.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson." The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson." Chronology, themes in his philosophy, bibliography. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society." Includes a chronology for Emerson and a list of his books and essays.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson." A short introduction to Emerson from a college textbook, the Heath Anthology of American Literature.

A brief biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson with links to some of his best known poems, from the Academy of American Poets.

"Ralph Waldo Emerson." Introduction, from PBS.

Eliot, Samuel Atkins. "Ralph Waldo Emerson." Heralds of a Liberal Faith (1901).

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. Burial place of Emerson, as well as Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and her father, Bronson Alcott.

Literary Criticism

Carson, Luke. "'Your Majesty's Self Is But a Ceremony': Laura (Riding) Jackson, Emerson, and the Conduct of Life." Preview only available. Texas Studies in Literature and Language 52 (Spring 2010).

Davis, Clark. "'Not Like Any Form of Activity': Waiting in Emerson, Melville, and Weil" [and Herman Melville, Simone Weil, "Bartleby the Scrivner," self-reliance]. Abstract only; article can be purchased (Duke UP, $15). Common Knowledge 15 (Winter 2009).

Lomas, Laura. "José Martí's 'Evening of Emerson' and the United Statesian Literary Tradition." Brief abstract only; article can be purchased (Cambridge Journals, $30) Journal of American Studies 43 (April 2009).

Noble, Mark. "Emerson's Atom and the Matter of Suffering." Abstract only; article can be purchased (from U of California P, $14). Nineteenth-Century Literature 64 (June 2009).

Ziser, Michael. "Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence." Abstract only; article can be purchased (Duke UP, $15). American Literature 82 (June 2010).

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