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  1. Representative men; seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1900-12-31
  2. Representative men; seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1892-12-31
  3. Culture, Behavior, Beauty by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1876-12-31
  4. Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1847-12-31
  5. Prudence by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1906-12-31
  6. Society and solitude; twelve chapters by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1883-12-31
  7. Representative men, seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1890-12-31
  8. Intellect by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1896-12-31
  9. Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1879-12-31
  10. Natural history of intellect and other papers by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1893-12-31
  11. The superlative, and other essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1899-12-31
  12. Essays: by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1852-12-31
  13. Representative men: seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1876-12-31
  14. The conduct of life by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, 1873-12-31

41. Reader's Companion To American History - -EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
The Reader s Companion to American History. Emerson, Ralph Waldo.(18031882), essayist and poet. A central figure in the history
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, essayist and poet. A central figure in the history of ideas in America, Emerson attacked the sterile rationalism and materialism of his age and encouraged a new generation to find "an original relation to the universe." His romantic advocacy of self-reliance, based on a notion of the "god within," diminished the authority of institutions and traditions and empowered the self. As the central figure in the movement known as transcendentalism, he had an immediate and personal influence on Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore Parker, among others, and his writings on philosophical and aesthetic subjects strongly influenced the work of such major American authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. Emerson was educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College and prepared for the Unitarian ministry at Harvard Divinity School. He served as minister at Boston's Second Church from 1829 to 1832, when he resigned over his refusal to administer Communion. Already a widower, in frail health, and unsure of his future, he traveled to Europe, where he met notable literary figures, including Thomas Carlyle with whom he carried on a correspondence for almost fifty years. He returned to the United States in 1833 and began his lecturing career. In his first book

42. Heath Anthology Of American Literature 4/e Ralph Waldo Emerson - Author Page
General Editor. Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) Ralph Waldo Emersonis often positioned as the “father” of American literature. As
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is often positioned as the “father” of American literature. As a poet, preacher, orator, and essayist, he articulated the new nation’s prospects and needs and became a weighty exemplum of the American artist. Throughout the 19th century, Emerson’s portrait gazed down from schoolhouse and library walls, where he was enshrined as one of America’s great poets. His daughter Ellen, accompanying her father on one of his frequent lecture tours, reported the fun of “seeing all the world burn incense to Father.” His calls for a scholar and a poet who would exploit the untapped materials of the nation served as literary credos for subsequent generations of writers, from Rebecca Harding Davis, Walt Whitman, and Frederick Douglass, to Hart Crane, Robert Frost, and A.R. Ammons. He was known for his critique of conventional values of property and ambition, yet his formulation of the self-reliant American was used to authorize the laissez-faire individualism of Horatio Alger and Andrew Carnegie. He was one of the first American writers to be recognized by the British and European literary establishments, read enthusiastically by Carlyle and Nietzche. To Matthew Arnold, he is the “voice oracular” who challenges the “bitter knowledge” of his “monstrous, dead, unprofitable world.” To Irving Howe, Emerson is the dominant spirit of his age, the proponent of “the American newness.” In F.O. Matthiessen’s formulation of the “American Renaissance,” Emerson is the initiating force “on which Thoreau built, to which Whitman gave extension, and to which Hawthorne and Melville were indebted by being forced to react against its philosophical assumptions.” To Whitman and, subsequently, to Alfred Kazin, Emerson is the “founder” of the “procession of American literature.”

43. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - By Miles Hodges
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EMERSON: AN OVERVIEW Emerson is best known as leader of the "transcendentalist" movement in America.
HIS LIFE AND WORKS He was born into a prominent Boston family, one characterized by generations of service to the church (his father, William, was the minister of the venerable First Church of Boston). He attended Harvard College and Divinity School and eventually became pastor of the 2nd church of Bostonwhere he soon achieved recognition as an excellent preacher. But like his father before him, he found himself being drawn into new realms of thought that challenged his orthodox Christian beliefs. The writings of the English romantics, Carlyle and Coleridge, the philosophy of Swedenborg, the new biblical text-criticism coming out of Germany, plus his own cool intellectual rather than warm pastoral nature began to distance him emotionally from his work. Soon after his wife died in 1831, he stepped down from the ministry (1832)to freely pursue the question of the nature and purpose of human lifeand its relation to the larger natural world around man. He traveled to Europe, visiting Coleridge, Wordsworth and Carlyle in the process. When he returned to the States in 1833, he began work on his small, but revolutionary book

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45. Emerson, Ralph Waldo: Work
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    During the early 1830s Emerson began an active career as writer and lecturer. In 1836 he published anonymously his essay Nature, based on his early lectures. It is in that piece that he first set forth the main principles of transcendentalism, In 1840 Emerson joined with others in publishing The Dial, a magazine intended to promulgate transcendental thought. One of the younger contributors to The Dial was Henry David Thoreau It was his winter lecture tours, however, which dominated the American lecture circuit in the 1830s and first made Emerson famous among his contemporaries. These lectures received their final form in his series of Essays Representative Men (1850). After a second trip to England, in 1847, he gave another series of lectures later published as English Traits (1856). During the 1850s he became strongly interested in abolitionism, and he actively supported war with the South after the attack on Fort Sumter. His late lecture tours are contained in

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48. Privation Deism - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) And Privation
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49. Browse Top Level > Texts > Project Gutenberg > Authors > E > Emerson, Ralph Wald
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50. Ralph Waldo Emerson Success
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52. The SAC LitWeb Ralph Waldo Emerson Page
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53. GURTEEN - Person: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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55. Ralph Waldo Emerson Lived From 1803-1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson lived from 18031882. He was born in Boston, May25, 1803. Meghan,Kari,Leilani,Grey. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
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He left the ministry, however, to pursue a career in writing and public speaking. He became one of America's best known and best loved 19th century figures. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 1803. Obviously he is most known for his writing. He is also greatly known for his philosophy and thought. His occupation as a At one point he left his pastorate because of doctrinal disputes with his superiors. Soon after, on a trip to Europe, he met a number of intelligent men, including Thomas Carlyle and William Wordsworth. The ideas of these men, along with those of Plato and some of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Persian thinkers, strongly influenced his development of the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In 1836 Emerson expressed Transcendentalism's main principle of the "mystical first book nature is perhaps the best expresson of his universe. His concept of the over-soul-a supreme mind that every man and woman share-allowed transcendentalists to disregard external authority and to rely instead on direct experience.(ffotnote- www.poets.org/poets.cfm?prmID=205 )

56. Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, Neoplatonism, and Hindu philosophy (see Hinduism), Emerson is noted for his skill in presenting his ideas eloquently and in poetic language. Emerson applied these ideas to cultural and intellectual problems in his 1837 lecture "The American Scholar," which he delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. In it he called for American intellectual independence. A second address, commonly referred to as the "Address at Divinity College," delivered in 1838 to the graduating class of Cambridge Divinity College, aroused considerable controversy because it attacked formal religion and argued for self-reliance and intuitive spiritual experience.

57. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Books And Biography
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William Ellery Channing , George Buckminster, Henry Ware, Sr. and Edward Everett. His father died when Waldo was eight, leaving the family without financial support. His mother Ruth sold her husband's library (which became the Boston Athenaeum), took in boarders and worked as a maid. They often had not enough to eat. Waldo and his brother Charles had only one overcoat between them. Taunting schoolfellows asked, "Whose turn is it to wear the great-coat today?" Aunt Mary Moody Emerson, his father's unmarried sister, was the dominant influence of Emerson's childhood and youth. Without formal education, she was possessed of a richly fertile mind. She read widely and knew well the thinkers of the day. A moderate "Channing Unitarian," steeped in the piety of New England and the history of its churches and theology, she taught Waldo many of the aphorisms he in turn taught his own children: "Lift your aims." "Always do what you are afraid to do." "Despise trifles." "Turn up your nose at glory, honor and money." And "Oh, blessed, blessed poverty." She first introduced Emerson to Hindu scriptures and Neoplatonism. She anticipated, especially in her openess to natural religion, the Transcendentalist sensibility. Emerson's distinctive views first began to emerge in his letters to "Tnamurya," an anagram of "Aunt Mary," during the 1820s.

60. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Quotes
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To be great is to be misunderstood. If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed. Children are all foreigners. Make the most of yourself for all that there is of you. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer. Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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