This new 2019 edition of Self-Reliance from Logos Books includes The American Scholar, a stirring speech of Emerson's, as well as footnotes and images throughout.

Copy-texts in this edition are the first published versions of each text, restored here as Emerson’s initial audience would have read them.

Nature, published in 1836, is an essay that laid out the foundation of transcendentalism. The essay was Emerson's attempt to get people to appreciate the beauty of nature.