Contents ix
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) 327
Thanatopsis 329
The Yellow Violet 330
To a Waterfowl 331
A Forest Hymn 332
To the Fringed Gentian 334
The Prairies 335
The Death of Lincoln 338
The Flood of Years 338
TRANSCENDENTAL AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) 342
Nature 344
The American Scholar 370
The Divinity School Address 382
Self-Reliance 393
The Over-soul 408
Concord Hymn 418
Each and all 419
The Rhodora 420
The Problem 420
Ode to Beauty 422
Hamatreya 424
Give All to Love 426
Ode (lnscribed to W. H. Channing) 427
Fable 429
Brahma 430
Days 430
Waldensamkeit 431
Terminus 432
Journals and Letters 433
Sunday, Apr. 18, 1824. 433
8 July [1831] 435
Boston, Feb. 19 [1834]. 435
7 May [1837]. 435
[To Thomas Carlyle] 436
Saturday [June] 23 [1838]. 437
[Oct. 12, 1838.] 437
[Nov. 10 1838.] 437
[April 1(?), 1842.] 438
[August 25, 1843.] 439
[August, l848.] 439
[Spring, 1851.] 439
[August 1, 1852.] 449
[To Walt Whitman] 440
[To Thomas Carlyle] 440