title: Essays: Second Series
text: # Essays: Second Series
  
  Essays: Second Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. It is the second volume of Emerson's Essays, the first being Essays: First Series. This book contains:
  
  * "The Poet"
  * "Experience"
  * "Character"
  * "Manners"
  * "Gifts"
  * "Nature"
  * "Politics"
  * "Nominalist and Realist"
  * "New England Reformers"
  