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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Leaving Emerson to care for his left behind family that included his mom and five brothers. ...
Emerson¡¯s personal life was quite a drag until the mid 1840¡¯s. Emerson was in really poor health conditions until he was around thirty. ... In 1831 his wife, Ellen Tucker, a poet too, died of tuberculosis, and then in 1842 his first son Waldo died, who was given his father¡¯s middle name.
Emerson is known to be a transcendentalist. ... Emerson is considered on of the leading figures in the thought and literature of American civilization. ... Emerson was such a great author that he influenced the works of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and Robert Frost. From 1841 to 1843 Henry David Thoreau lived in the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Both Emerson and Thoreau were transcendentalists, which means they believed that God is part of nature, human beings, and that each individual has to rely on his or her own conscience and intuition for spiritual truths.
Approximate Word count = 828
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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