Ralph Waldo Emerson
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Activity (s) | Writer |
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| Birth | 25 May 1803 Boston , Massachusetts  United States |
| Deaths | 27 April 1882 Concord , Massachusetts United States |
| Genre (s) | Test , philosophy , poetry |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 25 May 1803 , Boston , Massachusetts - 27 April 1882 , Concord , Massachusetts ) is an essayist , philosopher , poet, American and leader of the movement Transcendentalist the early nineteenth century.
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Youth, Family and Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston , Massachusetts May 25, 1803. He is the son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, pastor Unitarian. Their son was named Ralph in memory of his maternal uncle Ralph and his paternal great-grandmother Rebecca Waldo. Ralph Waldo was the second son of the five who survived to adulthood, the others were William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles. Three other children-Phebe, John Clarke, and Mary Caroline-died in childhood.
Emerson's father died of stomach cancer on 12 May 1811 , when Emerson was eight years old. It is then raised by his mother, in the same manner as other intellectual women of her family as her aunt Mary Moody Emerson, who had a profound impact on the young Emerson. She lived with the family on an irregular basis and maintained a correspondence with Emerson until his death in 1863.
His ancestors had settled from the seventeenth century in New England. Early career After graduation, Emerson helped his brother in the school for girls which is installed in the house of their mother. When his brother participated in Gttingen to study theology , Emerson takes over the school, which provides most of its income for several years. In May 1828, his younger brother William, who had worked with lawyer Daniel Webster , is sent in psychiatry at McLean Hospital. Emerson also studied theology and became pastor Unitarian, before resigning after a dispute with church leaders. At about the same time, he loses his young wife, Elena Louisa Tucker , who died in February 1831. Emerson made a major trip to Europe in the years 1832-1833. It crosses the Italy , travels to Paris (his visit to the National Museum of Natural History will mark him deeply) and Great Britain where he meets Wordsworth , Coleridge , John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle with whom he then correspondence until the death of Carlyle, in 1881. He will visit again in England in 1847-1848, which it will derive its travel book Traits Franais in 1856. In 1835 , Emerson bought a house in Concord ( Massachusetts ), and quickly became one of the personalities of the city where he made the acquaintance of Henry David Thoreau. In autumn 1837, Emerson asked Thoreau: "Do you keep a diary? This question was an inspiration for Thoreau throughout his life. He published anonymously his first book, Nature , in September 1836. A year later, on 31 August 1837 , he made a now famous speech before the club Phi Beta Kappa , " The American Scholar (en). In his speech, Emerson says the literary independence from the United States and urges Americans to create their own style of writing, released in Europe. He participates with some other intellectuals in the founding of The Dial magazine whose first issue came out in 1840 to help spread ideas Transcendentalists. His work lies at the confluence of two great traditions, Puritanism and Romanticism. Emerson loses his eldest son Waldo suffering from scarlet fever in 1842. Her grief inspires two major works: the poem Threnody and testing Experience. On 19 April 1882 , Emerson out walking when he was apparently caught cold, and is surprised by a sudden rainstorm. Two days later, he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Emerson died on April 27 1882. He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. It will be placed in his coffin, wearing a white dress offered by American sculptor Daniel Chester French. Emerson had a passion for the genius of Montaigne and he once told Bronson Alcott that he wanted to write like him, a book, funny, full of poetry, theology, everyday things, philosophy, anecdotes, slag. Like Goethe , Emerson first looks in a "science" of nature's answer to the question about man's place. Much of his insights come from his study of Eastern religions, including the Hindu , the Confucianism and Sufism. Of all the thinkers who can now claim to Emerson include Stanley Cavell who brings what he calls the Emersonian perfectionism of morality that runs through some films (as Cavell brings in the kind of comedies of remarriage). This perfectionism of the subject policy is notable characteristic of being non-elitist. His most important works in prose are: Emerson also wrote poetry: Threnody , Uriel , Works and Days and the famous Concord Hymn. Literary career and transcendentalism
Final years and death
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