Essay Archive - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson “…was truly one of our great geniuses” even though he
may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself,
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” Emerson was also a major
leader of “the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism”. (Encarta 1)
Transcendentalism was belief in a higher reality than that found everyday
life that a human can achieve. Biographical Information Emerson was born on
May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father died when he was young
and his mother was left with him and his four other siblings. At the age of
18 he graduated from Harva....
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