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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Richardson was known for his biographies of Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James. [1] Emerson: The Mind on Fire won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1996, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism won the Bancroft Prize in 2007. [1] In the first half of his career, he published as Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
His most recent academic book, Emerson in Iran: the American Appropriation of Persian Poetry (SUNY Press, 2019) is the first full-length study of Persian Influence in the work of the seminal American poet, philosopher, and translator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Extending the current trend in transnational studies back to the figural origins of both ...
Emerson introduces Transcendentalist and Romantic views to explain an American scholar's relationship to nature. A few key points he makes include: A few key points he makes include: We are all fragments, "as the hand is divided into fingers", of a greater creature, which is mankind itself.
Emerson Literary Society, a coed collegiate literary society; Emerson String Quartet, a chamber music group; Emerson, Lake & Palmer, a progressive rock group; Emerson Drive, a Canadian country music group; Emerson (horse), a Brazilian-bred thoroughbred racehorse; Emerson (typeface)
Illustration of Emerson's transparent eyeball metaphor in "Nature" by Christopher Pearse Cranch, ca. 1836-1838. Emerson uses spirituality as a major theme in the essay. Emerson believed in re-imagining the divine as something large and visible, which he referred to as nature; such an idea is known as transcendentalism, in which one perceives a new God and a new body, and becomes one with his ...
Roger Searle Penske (born February 20, 1937) is an American auto racing team owner, businessman, and retired professional driver. Penske is the owner of Team Penske , the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , IndyCar , and other auto racing-related businesses.
Thomas I. Emerson (1907–1991) was a 20th-century American attorney and professor of law. He is known as a "major architect of civil liberties law," [ 1 ] "arguably the foremost First Amendment scholar of his generation," [ 2 ] and "pillar of the Bill of Rights ."