Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1803. (Gagne 1 ) Emerson grew up with five brothers and two sisters. ( Yanella 1 ) He was highly educated and graduated from Harvard at the age of eighteen in 1821. He then attend the Harvard Divinity school in 1825. (Yanella 3) Due to Emerson's sophisticated style, he is difficult to read but such an interesting poet that in the end a person never regrets the effort to understand this important figure in American …showed first 75 words of 627 total…

…showed last 75 words of 627 total…Ellen in 1872. After visiting his friend Caralyle, the tour what he called the "Old World." (Yanella 17) Emerson health was failing yet he still managed to release two more works of his own. They were Paranassus and Letters and Social Aims. These works greatly reflected the thoughts of those who helped him write them due to his dwindling memory. (Yanella 18) After a few more lectures at Harvard, Emerson died on April 27, 1882 of pneumonia. ("Ralph Waldo Emerson" 1)