Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays--First and Second Series

Reading notes--Adam Kissel

Using New National Edition (1914)

In Riverside Edition, Essays are in vols. 2-3

First Series

History | Self-Reliance | Compensation | Spiritual Laws
Love | Friendship | Prudence | Heroism
The Over-Soul | Circles | Intellect | Art

Second Series

The Poet | Experience | Character | Manners | Gifts
Nature | Politics | Nominalist and Realist | [New England Reformers]

Topics:

Aspiration: 127, 143,224-25,254,304,314,352,357,368,386,396,417

Energeia: 12-13, 45, 47, 112 [circulation], 133, 190 [circulation], 199, 202, 218, 252, 321

Freedom: 6,21,38,42,135,220,254,256-60,300,335,371,374,380
duties therefore all the higher: 21, 49-50, 203, 324, 375

Human nature: 8,28,32-33,39,75,98,144,149!,153,173,174!ff. [whole essay], 225,228,281,340,368

Memory: 85, 94!, 113, 181, 230, 319!, 347

Youth: 19, 32-33, 110-11, 175, 179, etc., 275, 366, 370, 385, 389

Wise Man: 6, 54, 70/75, 96, 144, 153, 160, 161, 168-69, etc.?, 304, 376, 378

Law: passim, and 3,5,8,16,34,39,47,48,49,66-67,72,88,111,130,144,176,234,299,354

Debts: 203

Books: e.g. 259,274,279,388-89

Pluralism: passim, and 391