Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
RALF WAW-doh EM-er-son (he went by his middle name, Waldo, from boyhood)
Also Known As Waldo Emerson
American Literature
American essayist, lecturer and poet, the central figure of New England Transcendentalism and the writer most credited with giving the American essay its own voice, distinct from the British model. A former Unitarian minister who resigned his Boston pulpit in 1832, he reached most readers through the essay collections Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), and gave early, decisive public support to Walt Whitman on the strength of the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass.
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AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1 Classification
Original Language Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Both part of the Concord Transcendentalist circle.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Emerson owned the Walden Pond land Thoreau built his cabin on and urged him to keep a journal.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fuller edited The Dial 1840-1842; Emerson succeeded her as editor 1842-1844.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source The Norton Anthology of World Literature
Correspondents and friends from their 1833 meeting in Scotland until Carlyle death in 1881; Emerson arranged the first American edition of Sartor Resartus (Boston, 1836).
Source Simon Heffer, Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle (1995)Simon Heffer
In Genre
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
In Movement
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)
Influenced
Emerson to Whitman, 21 July 1855, on receiving the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1855
Works Attributed
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge (1838)
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841)
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series (1844)
Nature, Works Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836)
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men (1850)
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841)
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1837)
Source Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life (1860)
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1. Wikipedia: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.
Award: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1855
Influenced: Walt WhitmanQuote, Influenced: Walt Whitman
I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.
Simon Heffer, Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle (1995)
Simon Heffer, 1995Associated With: Thomas Carlyle
The Norton Anthology of World Literature
W. W. Norton & CompanyAssociated With: The Essay
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