Emerson,Ralph Waldo

Emerson,Ralph Waldo
Em·er·son (ĕmʹər-sən), Ralph Waldo. 1803-1882.
American writer, philosopher, and central figure of American transcendentalism. His poems, orations, and especially his essays, such as Nature (1836), are regarded as landmarks in the development of American thought and literary expression.
  Em'er·soʹni·an (-sōʹnē-ən) adj.

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