Compensation (essay)

Compensation is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It appeared in his book Essays, first published 1841. In 1844, Essays: Second Series was published, and subsequent republishings of Essays were renamed Essays: First Series.

See also

• Self-Reliance

External links

• Text of essay

v t e Ralph Waldo Emerson Speeches The American Scholar (1837) Divinity School Address (1838) Poetry "Concord Hymn" (1836) "Uriel" (1846) "The Rhodora" (1847) "Brahma" (1856) Essays Nature (1836) Self-Reliance (1841) Compensation (1841) The Over-Soul (1841) Circles (1841) The Poet (1844) Experience (1844) Politics (1844) New England Reformers (1844) Essay collections Essays: First Series (1841) Essays: Second Series (1844) Representative Men (1850) The Conduct of Life (1860) Related articles The Atlantic Letter to Martin Van Buren Ralph Waldo Emerson House The Old Manse Transcendentalism Transcendental Club People Amos Bronson Alcott Thomas Carlyle Edward Waldo Emerson Mary Moody Emerson Rev. William Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell Henry David Thoreau