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United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)

United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882)

An eminent American philosopher, poet, essayist, and lecturer; born in Boston, May 25, 1803; died at Concord, Mass., April 27, 1882. At first a Unitarian minister in Boston, he resigned his pulpit in 1832, retiring to Concord, where his home became a centre of intellectual influence. The works of Emerson comprise the following: "An Historical Discourse delivered before the Citizens of Concord" (1835); "Nature" (1836); Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus", (edited: 1836); an oration, "The American Scholar" (1837); "Carlyle's Essays" (edited: 1838); "Method of Nature", an oration (1841); "Essays" (1841); Carlyle's "Past and Present" (edited: 1843); "Man the Reformer" (1844), a lecture; "The Young American" (1844), a lecture; "Essays" (second series, 1844); "An Address" (1844); "Poems" (1847); "Nature: Addresses and Lectures" (1849); "Representative Men", seven lectures (1850); "English Traits" (1856); "Miscellanies" (1856); "The Conduct of Life" (1860); "May Day and Other Pieces" (1867); "Society and Solitude" (1870); "Tribute to Walter Scott" (1871); "Letters and Social Aims" (1876); "Selected Poems" (1876); "The Fortune of the Republic" (1878), a lecture; "Complete Works" (1883-84); "Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers" (1893). He also contributed much to the Dial, and edited the Massachusetts Quarterly Review (1847-50).