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Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Nominalist and Realist,” Essays, Second Series (1844).

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Titles by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Self-Reliance
• The Rhodora
• Transcendentalism

Salem on History:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Encyclopedia:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (World Philosophers and Their Works)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Poetry)
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson dies
• Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Essays
• Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers his “Divinity School Address” at Harvard Divinity School
• Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers a Phi Beta Kappa speech, “The American Scholar”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson is born