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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882. Biography. Born to a poor family Forced to follow father’s footsteps Attended Harvard to become a minister Finished school by 25 17 year old wife dies 17 months after wedding of tuberculosis Emerson immensely grieved. . Biography Con’t.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

  2. Biography • Born to a poor family • Forced to follow father’s footsteps • Attended Harvard to become a minister • Finished school by 25 • 17 year old wife dies 17 months after wedding of tuberculosis • Emerson immensely grieved.

  3. Biography Con’t • Emerson travels to Europe • To cope with grief • Meets European Romantic Poets • Returns to US, remarries • Does not return to minister career • Supplements writing career by lecturing • Appeals to general public and learned people • Becomes influential friend to future writers: • Thoreau, Whitman, Douglas, Frost

  4. Beliefs • Individual men were part of this ‘idea of men’ • Coins idea of “Over-Soul” • Man and nature are part of a universal whole in which people could see their souls reflected

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