Works by Emerson

• [CW] The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Robert Spiller et al, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971–
• [E] “Education,” in Lectures and Biographical Sketches, in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Edward Waldo Emerson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883, pp. 125–59 (Scholar)
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Edward Waldo Emerson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 12 volumes, 1903–4
• The Annotated Emerson, ed. David Mikics, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
• The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes. 10 vols., Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910–14.
• The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. William Gillman, et al., Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1960–
• The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3 vols, Stephen E. Whicher, Robert E. Spiller, and Wallace E. Williams, eds., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961–72.
• The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton. 10 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964–95.
• (with Thomas Carlyle), The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle, ed. Joseph Slater, New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.
• Emerson’s Antislavery Writings, eds. Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. (Scholar)
• The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, eds. Ronald Bosco and Joel Myerson, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
• Emerson: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), ed. Kenneth Sacks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• (See Chronology for original dates of publication.)

Selected Writings on Emerson

• Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Estimate of His Character and Genius: In Prose and in Verse, Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1882) (Scholar)
• Allen, Gay Wilson, 1981, Waldo Emerson, New York: Viking Press. (Scholar)
• Arsić, Branka, 2010. On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Arsić, Branka, and Carey Wolfe (eds.), 2010. The Other Emerson, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Bishop, Jonathan, 1964, Emerson on the Soul, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Buell, Lawrence, 2003, Emerson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Cameron, Sharon, 2007, Impersonality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Carpenter, Frederick Ives, 1930, Emerson and Asia, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Cavell, Stanley, 1981, “Thinking of Emerson” and “An Emerson Mood,” in The Senses of Walden, An Expanded Edition, San Francisco: North Point Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988, In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Abbreviated CHU in the text.). (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life, Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Conant, James, 1997, “Emerson as Educator,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 43: 181–206. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “Nietzsche as Educator,” Nietzsche’s Post-Moralism: Essays on Nietzsche’s Prelude to Philosophy’s Future, Richard Schacht (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 181–257. (Scholar)
• Constantinesco, Thomas, 2012, Ralph Waldo Emerson: L’Amérique à l’essai, Paris: Editions Rue d’Ulm. (Scholar)
• Ellison, Julie, 1984, Emerson’s Romantic Style, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Firkins, Oscar W., 1915, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Scholar)
• Follett, Danielle, 2015, “The Tension Between Immanence and Dualism in Coleridge and Emerson,” in Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature, Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Thomas Constantinesco (eds.), London: Routledge, 209–221. (Scholar)
• Friedl, Herwig, 2018, Thinking in Search of a Language: Essays on American Intellect and Intuition, New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Goodman, Russell B., 1990a, American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 2. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990b, “East-West Philosophy in Nineteenth Century America: Emerson and Hinduism,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 51(4): 625–45. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, “Moral Perfectionism and Democracy in Emerson and Nietzsche,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 43: 159–80. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “The Colors of the Spirit: Emerson and Thoreau on Nature and the Self,” Nature in American Philosophy, Jean De Groot (ed.), Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1–18. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Emerson, Romanticism, and Classical American Pragmatism,” The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, Cheryl Misak (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19–37. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, American Philosophy Before Pragmatism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 147–99, 234–54. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy,” Handbook of American Romanticism, Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, Jan Stievermann (ed.), Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 517–536. (Scholar)
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1885, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Scholar)
• Horsman, Reginald, 1981, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, Cambridge, and London: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Lysaker, John, 2008, Emerson and Self-Culture, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Matthiessen, F. O., 1941, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Packer, B. L., 1982, Emerson’s Fall, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, The Transcendentalists, Athens: University of Georgia Press. (Scholar)
• Poirier, Richard, 1987, The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, Poetry and Pragmatism, Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Porte, Joel, and Morris, Saundra (eds.), 1999, The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Richardson, Robert D. Jr., 1995, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Sacks, Kenneth, 2003, Understanding Emerson: “The American Scholar” and His Struggle for Self-Reliance, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Urbas, Joseph, 2016, Emerson’s Metaphysics: A Song of Laws and Causes, Lanham, MD and London: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Versluis, Arthur, 1993, American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Whicher, Stephen, 1953, Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Wirzbicki, Peter, 2021, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Zavatta, Benedetta, 2019, Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson, trans. Alexander Reynolds, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)