How would you describe Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Answer 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet, essayist, and lecturer from Massachusetts. He was a prominent figure in the New England Transcendentalism movement. Two of his most famous works are Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, in which he wrote about individuality and divinity.

Answer 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leading American Transcendentalist philosopher, essayist, and poet. Known for his essays on self-reliance and individualism, he advocated for a close connection to nature and the importance of intuition and spiritual growth. Emerson's works continue to influence philosophical and literary thought in the United States and beyond.

Answer 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson was known for many things. He is most famous for his books "Nature" and "Self Reliance." But he also wrote numerous poems and essays, and he was an active orator. He was a great philosopher and a very important figure in both the transcendentalism movement and the lives of many great authors like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

Answer 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson has written:

'Essays. Erste Reihe'

'Miscellanies - Vol. 11'

'The selected letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Correspondence, American Authors

'Correspondence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Grimm' -- subject(s): Correspondence, American Authors

'Literary ethics. --'

'Representative men and miscellanies'

'Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Protected DAISY

'Behavior'

'Plutarch'

'The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: Essays'

'Emersons's earlier poems'

'Nature and compensation'

'Political writings' -- subject(s): History, Political and social views, Politics and Government, United States Civil War, 1861-1865

'Nature, addresses, and lectures' -- subject(s): Nature

'Leaves of Friendship' -- subject(s): Freindship, greeting card

'What books to read' -- subject(s): Books and reading

'Nature' -- subject(s): Nature, Literature, Literary collections

'Emerson's essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship'

'Nature and selected essays' -- subject(s): Protected DAISY

'The preacher' -- subject(s): Clergy

'Poems'

'Essays'

'Emerson on war'

'Nature, Addresses, And Lectures - Vol. 1'

'English Traits - Vol. 5'

'Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Literature

'The Tao of Emerson' -- subject(s): Taoism, Poetry

'History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual laws, The American scholar'

'The early poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Representative men; seven lectures' -- subject(s): Biography

'Essays & lectures' -- subject(s): American literature

'Poems'

'Vertreter der Menschheit'

'Emerson on education' -- subject(s): Philosophy, Education

'For open brotherhood, and the Christianity of Jesus, and the kingdom of God within us'

'The Boston book. Being specimens of metropolitan literature' -- subject(s): American literature, Gift books

'Aimosen xuan ji'

'The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II'

'Essays Series 2' -- subject(s): OverDrive, Classic Literature, Fiction

'The twenty essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Emerson, day by day' -- subject(s): Calendars

'Essays and Poems (Romantic Tradition in Amer Lit Ser)'

'Miscellanies'

'Emerson's literary criticism' -- subject(s): Literature

'Essays and poems of Emerson' -- subject(s): Accessible book

'The Works in Three Volumes'

'Essays and English Traits'

'Uncollected lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Essays'

'Miscellanies Of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872'

'English traits, Representative men & other essays' -- subject(s): Social life and customs

'Friendship and Love' -- subject(s): Love, Friendship

'An oration, delivered before the literary societies of Dartmouth college, July 24, 1838' -- subject(s): Learning and scholarship, Literary ethics

'La Princesa de Las Llamas'

'The Complete Prose Works'

'The collected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Conduct Of Life - Vol. 6'

'Essay-gems of Emerson'

'Prudence' -- subject(s): Prudence

'Uncollected lectures'

'A candidate for truth'

'Printed copy of sermon'

'The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Correspondence, American Authors

'An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 ..' -- subject(s): Unitarianism

'Letter from R.W. Emerson, to the Second Church and Society'

'Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions'

'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, 1822-1826 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894' -- subject(s): American poetry

'Mr. Emerson writes a letter about Walden' -- subject(s): American Authors, Correspondence

'Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'The collected works of Ralph Emerson'

'Essays, First and Second Series'

'Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894' -- subject(s): American poetry

'An Address Delivered Before The Senior Class In Divinity College By Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Des grands hommes'

'Gesammelte Werke'

'The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures ..'

'The senses and the soul'

'The American scholar' -- subject(s): Learning and scholarship, American essays, Character

'Emerson's essays'

'A critical and variorum edition of the poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson..'

'Henry D. Thoreau; Emerson's obituary' -- subject(s): Death and burial

'Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli'

'El Espiritu de La Naturaleza'

'The senses and the soul'

'The early lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Journals' -- subject(s): Diaries, American Authors, Authors, American

'Stars of thought'

'Five essays on man and nature'

'Three essays'

'The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI, The Conduct of Life (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'Major Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Select essays and poems'

'Uncollected writings' -- subject(s): Modern Civilization, Literary collections

'Essays On History And Intellect'

'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII, 1835-1862 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'Right Reading'

'Society and solitude, twelve chapters'

'The portable Emerson' -- subject(s): Protected DAISY

'Ralph Waldo Emerson papers' -- subject(s): Correspondence

'The sound of trumpets'

'Success, Greatness, Immortality'

'Selected poems'

'Education' -- subject(s): Education

'Essays'

'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, 1838-1842 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'Fortune of the Republic: Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30 ..' -- subject(s): Accessible book

'Memoir Of Ralph Waldo Emerson (volume 2) - Vol. 14'

'Just a few words' -- subject(s): Anniversaries, Lincoln Day

'Representative Man'

'Selections'

'Literature'

'Orations, lectures, and addresses'

'The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Compensation, being an essay'

'Journals (10 Volumes)'

'Letters'

'Correspondence'

'On love and friendship' -- subject(s): Love, Friendship

'Emerson's Thoughts Concerning Spiritual Laws'

'Nature and other miscellanies'

'The poetry notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): American Manuscripts, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Manuscripts, Poetic works

'Essays and English traits' -- subject(s): Social life and customs, Civilization, English National characteristics

'Nature (1836) edited with an introd., index-concordance and bibliographical appendices by Kenneth Walter Cameron'

'Addresses and essays'

'Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1876'

'Essays: Second Series' -- subject(s): Accessible book

'The Spiritual Light of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'English traits' -- subject(s): English National characteristics, Description and travel, Social life and customs, Civilization, Description and travel.

'Essays'

'Miscellanies, with an introd. by John Morley'

'The selected lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Speeches, addresses, etc., American

'Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Fiction, Poetry, OverDrive

'Essays'

'Representative selections'

'On nature'

'Essays of Emerson'

'The portable Emerson' -- subject(s): Accessible book

'The vestry lectures and a rare sermon' -- subject(s): Criticism, interpretation, Bible

'Compensation' -- subject(s): Accessible book

'Parnassus' -- subject(s): English poetry, American poetry, English poetry (Collections)

'The wisest words ever written on war' -- subject(s): War

'Emerson's essay on The over-soul' -- subject(s): Soul

'Nature, the conduct of life'

'Power, wealth, illusions'

'Complete works'

'Emerson's early reading list, 1819-1824' -- subject(s): Books and reading

'Write It in Your Heart That Every Day is the Best Day in the Year Bookmark'

'Representative Men (Seven Lectures)'

'Essays and Essays (Charles E. Merrill program in American literature)'

'The complete essays and other writings' -- subject(s): Lending library, Literatura Norte Americana, American essays, Ensaio Norte Americano

'Selected works' -- subject(s): Women, American literature, History

'Favourite essays of Emerson'

'Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Lending library

'English Traits (The John Harvard Library)'

'An oration, delivered before the Phi beta kappa society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837' -- subject(s): Learning and scholarship, Phi beta kappa addresses

'Emerson's Antislavery Writings' -- subject(s): Antislavery movements

'Self-Reliance and Other Writings' -- subject(s): Nonfiction, Philosophy, OverDrive

'The complete essays and other writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'The conduct of life' -- subject(s): Conduct of life, Early works to 1900, OverDrive, Classic Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Early works to 1800

'Hitch your wagon to a star and other quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Quotations, American Quotations

'Essays and poems'

'Essays - Second Series (1844)' -- subject(s): Essays, Nonfiction, Philosophy, OverDrive

'Essai sur la nature'

'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V, 1835-1838 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'Emerson's theory of poetry' -- subject(s): Poetry

'Success' -- subject(s): Success

'Young Emerson speaks' -- subject(s): American Sermons, Sermons, Unitarian churches, Unitarian Universalist churches

'Aimosen wen xuan'

'The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, 1833-1836 (Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson)'

'The journals and miscellaneous notebooks' -- subject(s): Notebooks, sketchbooks

'Poems of R. W. Emerson'

'Two unpublished essays: The character of Socrates, The present state of ethical philosophy. With an introd. by Edward Everett Hale' -- subject(s): Ethics, History

'Early lectures'

'Father, we thank you' -- subject(s): Gratitude, Prayers

'Selected works'

'Essays and journals' -- subject(s): Mumford, Lewis, 1895-

'English traits and Representative men' -- subject(s): Social life and customs

'Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): Diaries, American Authors

'Lectures and biographical sketches'

'Essays'

'The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson' -- subject(s): OverDrive, Nonfiction, Philosophy

'Select writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Thoughts From Emerson'

'Representative men' -- subject(s): Biography, Philosophy of nature

'Essays'

'Manners' -- subject(s): Courtesy

'Essays on Art, Nature and Spirituality'

'Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841-1844'

'Light of Emerson' -- subject(s): Quotations, American Quotations

'An Oration Delivered Before The Phi Beta Kappa Society, By Ralph Waldo Emerson'

'Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson with Annotation'

Answer 5

Emerson believed in Transcendentalism. Which is believing that human senses can only know physical things. Intuition over Human senses. also that God is in everything, Over-Soul.

Answer 6

He was a great nineteenth century American philosopher and essayist. He is considered the father of the Transcendentalist movement.

Answer 7

he received the nickname "The Sage of Concord" by his friends because they thought he was so smart.

Answer 8

A famous poet.