Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, poet, and leader of the transcendentalist movement. He was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School. Emerson published several collections of essays and poems focused on nature, self-reliance, and individualism. He is considered one of the greatest writers and philosophers in American history.

1. Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
1803-1882

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
NAME: Ralph Waldo Emerson
OCCUPATION: Philosopher, Journalist, Poet
BIRTH DATE: May 25, 1803
DEATH DATE: April 27, 1882
EDUCATION: Boston Public Latin School,
Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School
PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
PLACE OF DEATH: Concord, Massachusetts

3. Qoutes
"Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm.“
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only
way to have a friend is to be one.“
"Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little
by little, she achieves her work."

4. Works
o Collections
Essays: First Series
(1841)
Essays: Second Series
(1844)
Poems (1847)
Nature; Addresses and
Lectures (1849)
Representative Men
(1850)
English Traits (1856)
The Conduct of Life
(1860)
May Day and Other
Poems (1867)
Society and Solitude
(1870)
Letters and Social Aims
(1876)

5. Works
o Individual essays
"Nature" (1836)
"Self-Reliance" (Essays:
First Series)
"Compensation" (First
Series)
"The Over-Soul" (First
Series)
"Circles" (First Series)
"The Poet" (Essays:
Second Series)
"Experience" (Essays:
Second Series)
"Politics" (Second
Series)
"The American
Scholar"
"New England
Reformers"

6. Works
Poems
"Concord Hymn"
"The Rhodora"
"Brahma"
"Uriel"
"The Snow-Storm (poem)"
Letters
Letter to Martin Van Buren