Probably no writer has so profoundly influenced American philosophy
and literature, as did Emerson. Known as The Father of
Transcendentalism, he was the focal point of a small group of
intellectuals reacting against the orthodoxy of the established
religions of his era. As an active lecturer in the early 1830s, he
delivered a number of landmark lectures, most notably among them -
Compensation and Self-Reliance, in which Emerson fervently declares
man's inherent divinity. By positing that the way to realization
lay solely within, man can be fulfilled only through one's own
"self-induced and self-devised efforts."Marked by a deep compassion
and insight, Compensation and Self-Reliance rings like a
clarion-call - one Emerson intoned steadily throughout his life.
Though his last years were marked by a decline in his mental
powers, his reputation as one of the outstanding figures of
American letters was all but assured by the time of his death.RALPH
WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) was an American poet and essayist.
Universally known as the "Sage of Concord," Emerson established
himself as a leading spokesman of transcendentalism and as a major
figure in American literature. His additional works include a
series of lectures published as Representative Men (1850), The
Conduct of Life (1860), and Society and Solitude (1870).
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