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 wa....
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