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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 �History,� �Self-Reliance,� �The Over-Soul,� �Circles,� and �The Poet�; Emerson�s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including �Uriel,� �The Humble-Bee,� and �Give All to Love�; orations, including �The American Scholar,� �The Fugitive Slave Law,� and �John Brown�; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.