Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803–April 27, 1882) was an American author, poet, and philosopher.
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister in a famous line of ministers. He gradually drifted from the doctrines of his peers, then formulated and first expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his essay Nature.
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