Introduction by Larzer Ziff // Suggestions for Further Reading // A Note on the Text // ESSAYS // Nature 1836 35 // The American Scholar 1837 83 // An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge 1838 107 // Man the Reformer 1841 129 // History (Essays, First Series) 1841 149 // Self-Reliance (Essays, First Series) 1841 175 // The Over-Soul (Essays, First Series) 1841 205 // Circles (Essays, First Series) 1841 225 // The Transcendentalist 1842 239 // The Poet (Essays, Second Series) 1844 259 // Experience (Essays, Second Series) 1844 285 // Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic (Representative Men) 1850 313 // SELECTED ESSAYS OF EMERSON // Napoleon; Or, the Man of the World (Representative Men) 1850 337 // Fate (The Conduct of Life) 1860 361 // Thoreau 1862 393