~He wrote many essays and lectures that brought out his style and personality
~Born on May 3rd, 1803 in boston
~His nickname was Waldo
~Was a student at both Boston Latin School and Harvard
~Followed his fathers dreams and was also a unitarian minister(1829)
~Was married to Ellen Tucker, she passed away after only 18 months of marriage
~He made new friendships and began to discover the transcendental faith
~He returned to America in 1834, where he became a lecturer
~His life began to crumble when his brother Edward and Charles deceased
~He was remarried to a women named Lydia
~He settled down in Concord, MA, and later had four children
~In 1836, Emerson published his first major essay entitled NATURE
~Emerson based all his writings on the harmonies of man and nature
~was an abolitionist
~supporter for educational reform
~crusader for peace
~Leaves of Grass made the writer stand out in American Poetry
~Between 1842 and 1844 two of Emerson's children had passed away
~he faced more difficulties when his mother, aunt, two brothers, and comrade thoreau passed
~in 1872, the home him and his wife lived in burned down
~This led him to a series od depression
~he published his final papers Parnassus , and Letters and Social Aims
~Emerson died on April 27th, 1882 of an pneumonia
~His little new england town mourned for years after his death
