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Nature Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Assignment

Directions: We will go over Transcendentalism and read the first part of Emerson's essay Nature. Choose a section that carries a deep message for you. We will discuss the essay in a Socratic seminar. Question to ponder: What can you learn about nature and yourself?

Shared Reading: Nature

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interactive annotated text of Emmerson's Nature.

Resources-Library Books

The Annotated Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics; Phillip Lopate
Call Number: 814 EME

ISBN: 9780674049239

Publication Date: 2012-02-07

The #1 essayist and pure prose stylist in U.S. literature is on grand display in this lavish edition of essays, poems, and passages from Emerson's voluminous journals.
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Charles Johnson (Introduction by); Ralph Waldo Emerson; William H. Gilman (Editor)
Call Number: 814 EME

ISBN: 0451529073

Publication Date: 2003-10-07

Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American transcendentalist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, including journal entries, descriptions of daily life, meditations on human purpose and destiny, philosophical musings, and biographical studies.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781623958121

Publication Date: 2015-03-05

Contains the complete First and Second Series of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Use your SISD single sign on to open eBook.

Nature
LearnOutLoud.com presents Nature, complete and unabridged by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. LibriVox recording broken down into chapters.

Resources-Library Databases

Transcendentalism Definition
Definition of Transcendentalism from the Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature in the library database Literature Resource Center.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Biographical article of the life and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson from the library database Biography in Context.

Nature: An Overview
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature, appearing in 1836 as a little booklet, is a landmark in American thought and literature. It is the archetypal statement of transcendentalism, one of the more extreme forms which European romanticism took in America (library database Literature Resource Center).

Bloom's How to Write about Ralph Waldo Emerson
The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson are, and always have been, acknowledged for their complexity. Emerson gained a reputation for his brilliance and his poetry, but also for the obscurity and mysticism of his words...