Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1803. (Gagne 1 ) Emerson grew up with five brothers and two sisters. ( Yanella 1 ) He was highly educated and graduated from Harvard at the age of eighteen in 1821. He then attend the Harvard Divinity school in 1825. (Yanella 3) Due to Emerson's sophisticated style, he is difficult to read but such an interesting poet that in the end a person never regrets the effort to understand this important figure in American culture. After his studies at Harvard, Emerson entered the ministry and became a preacher in the Old Second Church. ("Ralph Waldo Emerson" 1 ) During this time he married Ellen Tucker who dies of tuberculosis seventeen months later after their marriage. (Gagne 1) Unable to continue, Emerson resigns from the church in 1831. (" Ralph Waldo Emerson" 1 ) A year after his wife's death, Emerson travels to England to and visits Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Coleridge who were two English writers. ("Ralph Waldo Emerson" 1) Emerson became good friends with Carlyle who help
Five years after Emerson released "Nature", he released "Essays:First Series in 1841. (Yanella 36) Emerson did not release his works as random collections of ideas on all different topics but instead wrote the coherent works of Emerson's thoughts. This work connects the modern age with the history of man. (Yanella 37) In 1886 Emerson released his second set of poems which was called "May-Day and Other Pieces" which was his last major work before he began to slow down. (Yanella 16) He then took up giving lectures at Harvard during the spring of 1870 until he was invited to take a train trip cross-country to California. (Yanella 17) Emerson took his last trip to England along with his daughter Ellen in 1872. After visiting his friend Caralyle, the tour what he called the "Old World." (Yanella 17) ed Emerson form his own views of the world in which he lived in. ("Ralph Waldo Emerson" 1) Emerson returned from Europe in 1833 to settle in Concord, Massachusetts where he became known as the person to who challenged traditiona
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