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Ralph Waldo Emerson（18031882）American lecturer,poet,essayist and philosopher,best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century,Emersons Early LifeIn 1803 in Boston,MA.Born on Election Day Born on the same street as the birth home of Benjamin Franklin.Father was a famous minister who encouraged young Ralph to pursue philosophy at a young age.Early TrialsIn 1811,when he was 8 his father passed away and Emerson is left to support his four other brothers.In 1817,when he was 14,he went to Harvard.Despite the hardships,all the Emerson boys,except one,graduated from Harvard University.Ralph was asked to share a coat with his brother to save finances.His careerIn 1821,after Harvard,Emerson assisted his brother in a school for young women established in their mothers house.In 1829,he was appointed as a junior pastor(青年牧师)by Bostons Second Church.Transcendentalism In 1832,he abandoned Unitarianism and went to Europe where he met poets Samuel Taylor Loleridge and William Wordsworth who introduced him to Romantic notions of nature and philosophy.In 1835,he founded a Transcendentalists Club and published a journalLate Life and DeathUpset in the 1860s by the coming Civil War,he lived a quiet life with his family.His house burnt to the ground in 1872.Died on April 27th,1882.Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)The British critic Matthew Arnold said the most important writings in English in the 19th century had been Wordsworths poems and Emersons essays.major workNature 论自然1836The American Scholar论美国学者1837Self reliance 论自立1841The Over-soul 论超灵1841Representative Men 代表人物1850English Traits 英国人的特性1856Comments Former U.S.Present Lincoln called him“the American Confucius(美国的孔子)”，“the father of American civilizations”.A great prose-poet,Emerson influenced a long line of American poets,including Walt Whitman,Emily Dickinson,Edwin Arlington Robinson,Wallace Stevens,Hart Crane,and Robert Frost.He is also credited with influencing the philosophies of John Dewey,George Santayana,Friedrich Nietzsche,and William James.