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He thought it happier to be dead, / To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

—Beauty

Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

WORKS: The Complete Works
The twelve-volume Concord edition of Emerson’s Complete Works features over 3,000 voluminous footnotes.; Essays and English Traits
Epitomal works demonstrate the genius of the father of the American Renaissance. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. V.; Bartlett’s Emerson Quotations; Douglas’s Emerson Quotations; Allibone’s Emerson Quotations; Bent’s Emerson Quotations; Wood’s Emerson Quotations
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE: Bacchus (OBEV); Borrowing: From the French (YBAV); Boston Hymn (HC); Brahma (AmAnth); Brahma (HC); Brahma (OBEV); Brahma (YBAV); Character (AmAnth); Concord Hymn (AmAnth); Concord Hymn (HC); Concord Hymn (YBAV); Days (AmAnth); Days (HC); Days (YBAV); Each and All (AmAnth); Fable (YBAV); Forbearance (AmAnth); Forerunners (AmAnth); Give All to Love (HC); Give All to Love (OBEV); Good-Bye (HC); Heri, Cras, Hodie (YBAV); Humble-Bee (YBAV); Merlin (AmAnth); Ode to Beauty (OBMV); Ode (AmAnth); Poet (YBAV); Problem (YBAV); Rhodora (YBAV); Sacrifice (YBAV); Shakespeare (YBAV); Terminus (AmAnth); The Apology (HC); The Earth (AmAnth); The Humble-Bee (AmAnth); The Humble-Bee (HC); The Problem (AmAnth); The Problem (HC); The Rhodora (AmAnth); The Snow-Storm (AmAnth); The Test (AmAnth); Threnody (AmAnth); To Eva (YBAV); Uriel (OBEV); Waves (AmAnth); Woodnotes (HC); From “Woodnotes” (AmAnth); Worship (OBMV);
WRITINGS ABOUT EMERSON: “Emerson”
Chapter by Paul Elmer More with bibliography from the Cambridge History of American Literature.

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