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Essays: Second Series

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1844 collection including Experience, The Poet and Nominalist and Realist; generally read as more chastened than the First Series after the 1842 death of his son Waldo.

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1844 2
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Source Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series (1844)

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1. Essays: Second Series (Wikipedia)
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Essays: Second Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism.
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2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series (1844)
Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Associated With: TranscendentalismView the Source
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