Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A representative American thinker, essayist, poet, and lecturer known as a central figure in New England Transcendentalism. Through works such as Nature and Self-Reliance, he expounded on individual self-reliance, a spiritual sense of unity with nature, and the importance of intuition. Influencing many thinkers including Henry David Thoreau, he is also famous for his address The American Scholar, often called the "Declaration of Independence for American Intellectuals."

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Year Ralph Waldo Emerson
1775
American Revolutionary War (Age: 28 years before birth, Period: 1775–1783, Location: Mainly the Southern Colonies and Western Appalachia)
1803
Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Period: May 25, 1803, Location: Present-day Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1830
Transcendentalist movement (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1830s–1840s, Location: New England region, primarily around Concord)
1836
Publication of "Nature" (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1836, Location: Around Boston, Massachusetts)
1837
"The American Scholar" speech (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1837, Location: Cambridge (present-day Cambridge, Massachusetts))
1840
Participation in the abolitionist movement (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1840s–1860s, Location: United States, centered in New England)
1841
Publication of "Self-Reliance" (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1841, Location: United States)
1861
American Civil War (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1861 to Houston's final years in 1863, Location: United States of America)
1882
Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Age: 78 years old, Period: April 27, 1882)

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