Man of Letters, The, 296, 298. 
    Man the Reformer, 142, 143. 
    Method of Nature, The, 136-141. 
    Michael Angelo, 73, 75. 
    Milton, 73, 75. 
    Montaigne, or the Skeptic, 202-204. 
    Napoleon, or the Man of the World, 206-209. 
    Natural History of the Intellect, 249, 268, 347. 
    Nature (the essay), 185, 186, 398. 
    New England Reformers, 188-191, 385. 
    Nominalism and Realism, 188. 
    Old Age, 261, 262. 
    Over-Soul, The, 166, 172-175, 398, 411. 
    Parker, Theodore, 228, 306. 
    Perpetual Forces, 297. 
    Persian Poetry, 224. 
    Phi Beta Kappa oration, 347. 
    Philosophy of History, 87. 
    Plato, 198-200;
      New Readings, 200. 
    Plutarch, 295, 299-302. 
    Plutarch’s Morals, introduction, 262. 
    Poet, The, 181, 182. 
    Poetry, 210. 
    Poetry and Imagination, 283;
      subdivisions:  Bards and Trouveurs,
      Creation, Form, Imagination,
      Melody, Morals, Rhythm, Poetry,
      Transcendency, Veracity, 283, 284;
      quoted, 325. 
    Politics, 186, 187. 
    Power, 230, 231. 
    Preacher, The, 294, 298. 
    Professions of Divinity, Law, and Medicine, 41. 
    Progress of Culture, The, 244, 288. 
    Prospects, 101-103. 
    Protest, The, 127. 
    Providence Sermon, 130. 
    Prudence, 166, 171, 172. 
    Quotation and Originality, 287, 288. 
    Relation of Man to the Globe, 73. 
    Resources, 286. 
    Right Hand of Fellowship, The, at Concord, 56. 
    Ripley, Dr. Ezra, 295, 302. 
    Scholar, The, 296, 299. 
    School, The, 127. 
    Scott, speech, 302, 307. 
    Self-Reliance, 166, 168, 411. 
    Shakespeare, or the Poet, 204-206. 
    Social Aims, 285. 
    Soldiers’ Monument, at Concord, 303. 
    Sovereignty of Ethics, The, 295, 297, 298. 
    Spirit, 100, 101. 
    Spiritual Laws, 166, 168. 
    Success, 260, 261. 
    Sumner Assault, 304. 
    Superlatives, 295, 297. 
    Swedenborg, or the Mystic, 201, 202, 206. 
    Thoreau, Henry D., 228, 295, 302. 
    Times, The, 142-145. 
    Tragedy, 127. 
    Transcendentalist, The, 145-155, 159. 
    Universality of the Moral Sentiment, 66. 
    University of Virginia, address, 347. 
    War, 88, 303. 
    Water, 73. 
    Wealth, 231, 232. 
    What is Beauty? 74, 94, 95. 
    Woman, 307, 308. 
    Woman’s Rights, 212, 213. 
    Work and Days, 256, 312, 406, 407. 
    Worship, 235. 
    Young American, The, 166, 180, 181.

  Emerson’s Poems:—­
    In general:  inspiration from nature, 22, 96;
      poetic rank in college, 45, 46;
      prose-poetry and philosophy, 91, 93;
      annual afflatus, in America, 136, 137;
      first volume, 192;
      five immortal poets, 202;
      ideas repeated, 239;