EMERSON
Introductory [293]
[I.]
Early days [296]
Takes charge of an Unitarian Church in Boston (1829) [297]
Resigns the charge in 1832 [298]
Goes to Europe (1833) [299]
Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle [300]
Settles in Concord (1834) [301]
Description of Concord by Clough [301]
Death of his first wife [302]
Income [303]
Hawthorne [305]
Thoreau [305]
Views on Solitude [306]
Effect of his address in the Divinity School of Harvard
(1838) [307]
Contributes to the Dial (1840) [309]
First series of his Essays published in 1841 [310]
Second series three years later [310]
Second visit to England (1847), and delivers lectures on
'Representative Men,' collected and published in 1850 [310]
Poems first collected in 1847; final version made in 1876 [310]
Essays and Lectures published in 1860, under general title
of The Conduct of Life [310]
And the Civil War [310]
General retrospect of his life [312]
Died April 27, 1882 [312]
[II.]
Style of his writings [313]
Manner as a lecturer [314]
Dr. Holmes [314]
His use of words [314]
Sincerity [316]
And Landor [316]
Mr. Lowell [316]
Description of his library [317]
A word or two about his verses [319]
[III.]
Hawthorne [322]
And Carlyle [323]
The friends of Universal Progress in 1840 [323]
Bossuet [324]
Remarks on New England [325]
One of the few moral reformers [327]
Essays on 'Domestic Life,' on 'Behaviour,' and on
'Manners' [329]
Compared to Franklin and Chesterfield [330]
Is for faith before works [333]
A systematic reasoner [335]
The Emersonian faith abundantly justified [337]
Carlyle's letter to (June 4, 1871) [337]
One remarkable result of his idealism [341]
On Death and Sin [342], [344]
Conclusion [346]