This Lesson Plan covers six of Emerson's essays from the First and Second Series and one commencement address given at Harvard Divinity School, but Emerson wrote several collections of essays, including The Conduct of Life, considered by some to be his most mature work. He also wrote a collection of biographies called Representative Men, published multiple volumes of poetry, and gave dozens of lectures and sermons.
Emerson was considered by many to be the grandfather of Transcendentalism and inspired many other authors, philosophers, poets, theologians, and thinkers associated with the movement, including Thoreau, Whitman, Alcott, and Fuller. Thoreau's Walden and Whitman's Leaves of...
