Part of the Humanities Initiative American Verse Collection, this resource offers links to more than fifty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This site features the author Ralph Waldo Emerson including the full text of the two essay collections: Essays, 1st Series and Essays, 2nd Series. Included in these essays are "Self Reliance" and "Politics".

Read and search for thirty poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, taken from the book "Early Poems." Includes a brief biography of Emerson.

RWE promotes to a global audience a greater understanding of and appreciation for the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Works are available in downloadable files and many have audio features.

Read the full text and listen to portions of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance."

Read a series of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning transcendentalism in his "Essays, 2nd Series".

Read the full text of a collection of essays concerning transcendentalism titled "Essays, 1st Series" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The University of Michigan offers this reproduction of Bronson Alcott's work as part of their Making of America series. A search feature allows users to search using boolean operators or a proximity search as well as more basic keyword.

Read the full text of eight essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. All the essays available on this site were first published in "The Dial" between 1840 and 1843.

Read and listen to essays published by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844. (Click on each chapter name to listen to the audio.)

From the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia Library, this website contains the online text of the 1903 work by Benjamin DeCasseres titled, "Emerson the Individualist."

Includes the entire e-text of Thoreau's (1817-1862 CE) "Maine Woods," as well as maps of his movement, contemporary and modern reviews, and links to other sites on this work.

The Thoreau Reader includes a full online text of Henry David Thoreau's compelling book-length commentary on nature and society, "Cape Cod." Also includes maps, reviews, and further links and information to this work.

This is the full text of Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott; a collection of fairy stories and poems she originally told to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen. It was her first published book.