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. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including โHistory,โ โSelf-Reliance,โ โThe Over-Soul,โ โCircles,โ and โThe Poetโ; Emersonโs first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including โUriel,โ โThe Humble-Bee,โ and โGive All to Loveโ; orations, including โThe American Scholar,โ โThe Fugitive Slave Law,โ and โJohn Brownโ; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.