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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 673 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction
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. …showed first 75 words of 673 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 673 total…his writing, not just one good essay. "Emerson was the most important figure during the Romantic Period" (Myerson 3). He left his mark on writing, especially the Romantic Period.
Bibliography
"Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. 1998 ed.
"Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Lkd. Columbia University Homepage, at "ILT Web." http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/acedemic/digitexts/emerson/bio_emerson.html
Hodgins, Francis. ed. Adventures in American Literature. Orlando: Harcourt, 1989.
Myerson, Joel. "Ralph Waldo Emerson." Grolier Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1993 ed.
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