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…showed last 75 words of 1495 total…of literature and society itself for many years. He gave literature a whole new concept on life and its surroundings. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a founder of transcendentalism and left an immense impact on literature for the ages. His subjects included transcendentalism, faith, self-reliance, and nature. He started a new way of thinking about the world. He helped us to look beyond materialistic things, and into the unknown. For this, Emerson will never be forgotten.