A great American Literary Writer

1. A great American Literary Writer! By, Ricky And Antoine

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson, preacher, lecturer, poet and essayist, is perhaps the most central figure of the American Renaissance. His theories of literature, politics, society and the self not only lie at the root of all subsequent American writing but continue both to challenge and encourage all those who read him today. As Harold Bloom comments in his introductory essay to the volume, � Emerson is the the mind of our climate, the principle source of the American difference in poetry and criticism and in a pragmatic post-philosophy.�

3. Major themes the writer covers The major themes that Ralph Waldo Emerson cover in most of his literary work is mostly dealing with the facts of nature,an he also wrote about the horror and fury of the war, and last but not least his experience of pain an struggle to become a better man for himself. (These are great words coming from a great author, That is true to life not just himself)!

4. A Great Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great writer, an poet for many of his great years in his lifetime. Even though he went through so much pain in his life dealing wit the pain of his father dying At a younger age forcing him to take over the family farming business.

5. Background INFO Emerson was born in 1803 to a family that was cultured but poor. When he was only eight years old, his father, a Unitarian minister, died of tuberculosis. His mother, left with six growing children to care for, opened a boarding-house. The father�s place in the lives of the Emerson children was taken by their aunt. Mary Moody Emerson was a strict Calvinist who emphasized self-sacrifice and whose enormous energy drove the Emerson boys to achievement. � she had the misfortune,� Emerson later wrote, � of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other tops.� Emerson entered Harvard at fourteen . He was an indifferent student,he ready widely in philosophy and theology. Upon graduation, Emerson took a job at a school run by his uncle and prepared himself, with many doubts, for the Unitarian ministry.

6. Continue �At the of twenty-five, he accepted a post at Boston�s Second Church; that same year, he married Ellen Tucker, a beautiful but fragile seventeen-year-old already in the early stages of tuberculosis. Seventeen months later, Ellen died. In later years, Emerson suffered from a severe loss of memory and had difficulty recalling the most ordinary words . This affliction resulted in his increasing public silence, and when he did appear in public, he read from notes. In autumn of 1881, Walt Whitman paid Emerson a visit of respect and was asked to dinner. Whitman wrote that Emerson � though a listener and apparently an alert one, remained silent through the whole talk and discussion. A lady friend [ Louisa May Alcott] quietly took a seat next to him, to give special attention. A good color in his face, eyes clear, with the well-known expression of sweetness, and the old clear-peering aspect quite the same .� Six months later, Emerson was dead.

7. Historical Period Emerson was writing in the great American Renaissance Period in American History. Ralph Waldo Emerson, as preacher, philosopher, and poet, embodied the finest spirit and highest ideals of his age. A thinker of bold originality, his essays and lectures offer models of clarity, style, and thought, which made him a formidable presence in 19th century American life.

8. The literary Period �As a complete critical portrait this volume contains pieces on Emerson�s poetry, essays and journals by such highly respected scholars as Stephen E. Whicher, Sacvan Bercovitch and Richard Poirer. Reprinted in the order of their publication, they provide an absorbing chronicle of modern critical responses to Emerson�s writing.�

9. One of the main theme of a major work �Nature is the first in time (since it is always there) and the first in importance of the three. Nature's variety conceals underlying laws that are at the same time laws of the human mind: "the ancient precept, �Know thyself,� and the modern precept, �Study nature,� become at last one maxim" (87).

10. A New England Writer Many of Emerson's essays were initially delivered as lectures, both in Boston and on his lecture tours around the country. His book Nature, the volumes of Essays, and his poems were reprinted both in Boston and in England. Several of his essays ("Love," "Friendship," "Illusions") were bound in attractive small editions and marketed as "gift books." His poems and excerpts from his essays were often reprinted in literary collections and school anthologies of the nineteenth century. Emerson represents the audiences for his work in challenging ways, often imagining them as sleeping or resistant, as needing to be awakened and encouraged. He discusses their preoccupation with business and labor, with practical politics and economy; their grief over the death of a child. He uses local and natural images familiar to the New Englanders at the same time he introduces his American audiences to names and references from a wide intellectual range (from Persian poets to sixth-century Welsh bards to Arabic medical texts to contemporary engineering reports). He has been a figure of considerable importance in modern American literary criticism and rhetoric (his discussions about language and speech, in particular), in American philosophy (influencing William James, Dewey, and more recently William Gass), and in discussions about education and literacy.

11. The Genres He Used He wrote a great variety of Provoking contemporary criticism on those poets, novelist, and playwrights of the English language who are most widely appreciated and studied by readers everywhere!

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