Emerson's Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CliffsNotes on Emerson's Essays contains an introduction, commentaries, the original text, and glossaries for six of Ralph Waldo Emerson's best known essays — "Nature," "The Poet," "The American Scholar," "Self-Reliance," "The Transcendentalist," and "The Over-Soul" — all from the most highly esteemed period of his writing. Emerson's major essay themes include transcendentalism, his search for the perfect relationship with God, and his use of the metaphor.