Self-Reliance and Other Essays: With Walden

Ralph 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.

The essay Self-Reliance represents the core of Emerson’s thinking. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is another powerful and widely read representation of transcendentalist movement.

The Essays
• History
• Self-Reliance
• Compensation
• Spiritual Laws
• Love
• Friendship
• Prudence
• Heroism
• The Over-Soul
• Circles
• Intellect
• Art
• The Poet
• Experience
• Character
• Manners
• Gifts
• Nature
• Politics
• Nonimalist and Realist
• New England Reformers

Walden