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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born May 25, 1803 ā€¢ Boston ā€¢ Massachusetts
Died April 27, 1882 (aged 78) ā€¢ Concord ā€¢ Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Notable Works ā€œAddress at Divinity Collegeā€ ā€¢ ā€œEnglish Traitsā€ ā€¢ ā€œEssaysā€ ā€¢ ā€œNatureā€ ā€¢ ā€œPoemsā€ ā€¢ ā€œRepresentative Menā€ ā€¢ ā€œSelf-Relianceā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe American Scholarā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Conduct of Lifeā€
Movement / Style American Renaissance ā€¢ Transcendentalism
Subjects Of Study Transcendentalism

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Black and white portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson in profile, wearing a suit and bow tie, with prominent sideburns.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, lithograph by Leopold Grozelier, 1859
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
ā€œWalt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmosā€
Walt Whitman
American poet
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American physician and writer
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
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Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
Fuller, Margaret
Margaret Fuller
American author and educator
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing
American theologian
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet
Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving, 1872, after an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American writer and educator
portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
American author
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer

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