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Ralph Waldo, Emerson : The Man of Letters

 

Emerson Ralph Waldo: 

(1803-1882)


American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston. He was the child of eight generations of New England Unitarian ministers. Emerson duly studied theology at Harvard and was appointed pastor of the Boston Second Church. His first wife died in 1831 and he resigned his pastorate the next year to make the first of three extendmas Carlyle and William Wordsworth. It had a decisive effect on his development.

He then returned to the United States and settled at concord in Massachusetts. He married there with Lydia Jackson in 1835 and began his career as writer and lecturer that gradually bought him fame.ed visits to Europe. He met there with men of the stamp of Samuel Coleridge, Tho

 

Emerson is to be considered one of the major figures of the ‘American Renascence’ that flourished in the 1850s with Thoreau. Emerson’s anti-intellectualist participation of man with nature, proper to transcendentalism.

Among his most important essays were the ‘American Scholar, the ‘Divinity School’ and the volume ‘Representative Men’.

 

After his death his numerous works in prose and verse collected 12 volumes and his journals were published in 10 volumes

In the spring 1872, he suffered from memory problems and suffered from aphasia. By the end of the 188s, he forgot his own name at times and, when anyone asked him how he felt,

He said,  "Quite well; I have lost my mental faculties, but am perfectly well".

On April 21, 1882, Emerson was found to be suffering from pneumonia. He died 6 days later 27th April, 1882.


 " Don't just follow the path, Make your own trail".

                                                                     Ralph Waldo, Emerson



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