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The most prominent American author of the 19th century was Mark Twain. He is best known for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” which are considered masterpieces of American literature. Twain’s writing captured the essence of American life in the 19th century, with a mix of humor, satire ...
24 de jan. de 2019 · The 19th century was known for shining literary figures. Authors of the 1800s include such greats as Dickens, Whitman, Irving, Melville, Irving, and Poe.
- Early Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Personal Crisis
- Emerson Began to Publish and Speak in Public
- The Transcendentalist Movement
- Emerson Broke with Tradition
- Emerson Was Known as "The Sage of Concord"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Was A Literary Influence
- Involvement in Social Causes
- Emerson’s Later Years
- Sources
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born May 25, 1803. His father was a prominent Boston minister. And though his father died when Emerson was eight years old, Emerson's family managed to send him to Boston Latin School and Harvard College. After graduating from Harvard he taught school with his older brother for a time, and eventually decided to become a Unit...
Emerson’s personal life appeared promising, as he fell in love and married Ellen Tucker in 1829. His happiness was short-lived, however, as his young wife died less than two years later. Emerson was emotionally devastated. As his wife was from a wealthy family, Emerson received an inheritance which helped sustain him for the rest of his life. The d...
After returning to America, Emerson began to express his changing ideas in written essays. His essay “Nature,” published in 1836, was noteworthy. It is often cited as the place where central ideas of Transcendentalism were expressed. In the late 1830s Emerson began to make a living as a public speaker. At that time in America, crowds would pay to h...
Because Emerson is so closely linked to the Transcendentalists, it is often believed that he was the founder of Transcendentalism. He was not, as other New England thinkers and writers actually came together, calling themselves Transcendentalists, in the years before he published “Nature.” Yet Emerson’s prominence, and his growing public profile, m...
In 1837, a class at Harvard Divinity School invited Emerson to speak. He delivered an address titled “The American Scholar” which was well-received. It was hailed as “our intellectual Declaration of Independence” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a student who would go on to be a prominent essayist. The following year the graduating class at the Divinity S...
Emerson married his second wife, Lidian, in 1835, and they settled in Concord, Massachusetts. In Concord Emerson found a peaceful place to live and write, and a literary community sprang up around him. Other writers associated with Concord in the 1840s included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller. Emerson was sometimes ref...
Emerson published his first book of essay in 1841, and published a second volume in 1844. He continued speaking far and wide, and it’s known that in 1842 he gave an address titled “The Poet” in New York City. One of the audience members was a young newspaper reporter, Walt Whitman. The future poet was greatly inspired by Emerson’s words. In 1855, w...
Emerson was known for his lofty ideas, but he was also known to get involved in specific social causes. The most notable cause Emerson supported was the abolitionist movement. Emerson spoke out against enslavement for years, and even helped self liberated enslaved people get to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Emerson also praised John Brown, t...
After the Civil War, Emerson continued to travel and give lectures based on his many essays. In California he befriended naturalist John Muir, whom he met in Yosemite Valley. But by the 1870s his health was beginning to fail. He died in Concord on April 27, 1882. He was nearly 79 years old. His death was front-page news. The New York Times publishe...
"Ralph Waldo Emerson." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998."The Death of Mr. Emerson." New York Times, 28 April 1882. A1.The Scarlet Letter was the first important novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the leading authors of nineteenth-century romanticism in American literature. Like many of his works, the novel is set in Puritan New England and examines guilt, sin, and evil as inherent human traits.
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