Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, and died in nearby Concord on April 27, 1882. Essayist, poet, and lecturer, Emerson was tremendously influential on American thought and literature. He influenced creative minds as various as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. He was the leader of Transcendentalism, an intuitional, religious, aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical movement. A tributary of European Romanticism, it proclaimed a theoretical and practical way of life and a new...
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