Ralph Waldo Emerson was the most widely recognized person of letters in America throughout his lifetime. He established himself as a prolific poet, essayist, popular lecturer, and advocate of social reforms, skeptical of reform and reformers. On May 25, 1803, Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister.
He studied Latin, Greek, geometry, physics, history, and philosophy at Harvard College. After four years of study at Harvard, Emerson agreed to write and deliver a poem for Class Day in 1821. Was he the class's best poet? Not quite. The teachers requested a other pupils to be Class Poet, but they declined, so Emerson was chosen.
Emerson returned home after graduating from Harvard to teach young women. His older brother, William, ran a girls' school in their mother's Boston home, and Emerson assisted him in teaching students. When William moved to go to school in Germany, Emerson took over the school. However, he reportedly disliked teaching, so he stopped and went to graduate school.
He was intrigued by Asian and Middle-Eastern philosophy and culture and even called his current wife "Mine Asia"—a play on words in Asia Minor. Emerson was introduced to the Indonesian-Chinese trade, a staple of the docks after the Revolutionary War as a child in Boston.
On September 8, 1836, while attending Harvard's bicentennial celebration, Emerson met with his friends Henry Hedge, George Putnam (a Unitarian minister), and George Ripley at Willard's Hotel in Cambridge. They meet to plan a symposium for people who found America's current state of thought unsatisfactory. They were also moved by Harvard's and Cambridge's stale intellectual climates.
His later years were marked by trips out into the Adirondacks. He used this time to get closer to the nature he was writing about. Ralph Waldo Emerson's seventh collection of essays, The Conduct of Life, saw him take a stand on some of the most contentious issues of the day, including slavery and national identity.
In late 1826 Emerson went to St. Augustine, Florida, to preach and write poetry. He also encountered and befriended Prince Achille Murat, the nephew of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He had renounced his European titles (despite his father having already been deposed) and entered to the United States. Murat was also a author, and the young men were said to have discussed religion, politics, and philosophy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the cornerstones of the American romantic movement. Moreover, his work has significantly influenced the thinkers, writers, and poets who came after him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson clearly understood wisdom. Throughout the nineteenth century, the renowned writer, poet, and thinker penned numerous meaningful phrases. Most remarkably, despite the fact that Emerson lived so many years ago, many of his words still ring true today.
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