Emerson's prose works include:

    * Nature (1836)
    * "The American Scholar" (1837, an address to Phi Beta 
    Kappa Society at Harvard)
    * "The Divinity School Address" (1838)
    * Essays: First Series (1841; includes "Compensation", 
    "Self-Reliance", and "Circles")
    * "The Transcendentalist" (1841)
    * Essays: Second Series (1844; includes "The Poet", 
    "Experience", and "Politics")
    * Representative Men (1850; features essays on Napoleon, 
    Plato, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Goethe)
    * English Traits (1856)
    * The Conduct of Life (1860; includes "Fate" and "Power")
    * "Thoreau" (1862; a eulogy for Henry David Thoreau)

Although he is more generally recognized as an essayist, 
Emerson also wrote and translated poetry. Emerson's poetry 
includes:

    * Collections:
          o Poems (1847)
          o May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
          o Selected Poems (1876)
    * Poems:
          o "Threnody"
          o "Uriel"
          o "Works and Days"
          o "Concord Hymn" (origin of the phrase "The shot 
          heard round the world")