Atlas Trail
From Nature to The Conduct of Life
Twenty-four years of Emerson's own published thought, in order: from the anonymous 1836 essay that founded Transcendentalism, through the controversy of 1838, to the chastened last major collection of 1860.
Stop 1 of 7.
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1836. Published anonymously; the founding statement.
Stop 2 of 7.
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1837. The Phi Beta Kappa address calling for an American intellectual life.
Stop 3 of 7.
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1838. The controversy that kept him off the Harvard platform for nearly thirty years.
Stop 4 of 7.
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1841. The essay his name is now shorthand for.
Stop 5 of 7.
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1844. Written after the death of his son Waldo; more chastened.
Stop 6 of 7.
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1850. Plato, Swedenborg and four others, each read as one human capacity.
Stop 7 of 7.
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1860. His last major collection, attentive to necessity and constraint.
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