THE ATHENAEUMEssays — Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy
Essays — Second Series
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textEmerson’s essays of 1844, among them The Poet, Experience, Character and Nature. Experience was written after his son Waldo died of scarlet fever, aged five, in January 1842. The same year the book came out, Emerson bought the land by Walden Pond on which Thoreau built his house.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- Walden Pond
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2945. In the public domain in the United States.