Essays: Second Series
Last updated October 31, 2026
Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1844 collection includes The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Politics and Nominalist and Realist. Written after the death of his young son, Waldo, in 1842, the essays look at grief, the limits of perception, the role of the poet and the place of the individual in society. The book closes with New England Reformers, a lecture on the reform movements of his day.
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