<div>This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. <b>The Portable Emerson</b> comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, <b>Nature</b>, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; <b>English Traits</b>, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.</div>