The full set of first and second series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including: History; Self-Reliance; Compensation; Spiritual Laws; Love; Friendship; Prudence; Heroism; The Over-Soul; Circles; Intellect; Art; The Poet; Experience; Character; Manners; Gifts; Nature; Politics; Nominalist and Realist; New England Reformers. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a champion of individualism, an influential lecturer and essayist and is often referred to as the Sage of Concord. His words of wisdom are insightful, relevant, and eloquently written and earned him the title of the father of transcendentalism.