Ralph Waldo Emerson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, the third son of the Reverend William Emerson and Ruth Haskins Emerson. Stern and disciplined, his parents normally refrained from displaying intense affection in the family, as so many Bostonians did at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Partly because of this upbringing, coldness, as Emerson himself noted throughout his life, became a distinct feature of his character, later, perhaps unconsciously, making him search in his writing for a spiritual life rich in sentiment.
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