Emerson's Life
Born May 25, 2003--Boston, MA.  His father is a Unitarian minister.  The family lives in the same manse immortalized by Hawthorne's "Mosses from an Old Manse."

Educated at the Boston Public Latin School

Attends Harvard: 1817-1821

Finds employment as "a hopeless Schoolmaster"

Begins study of theology in 1825

Becomes junior pastor at Second Church in Boston in 1829

Marries Ellen Tucker the same year; she dies sixteen months later

Resigns from the church in 1832 and begins a long European tour

Settles in Concord, Massachusetts in 1834

Marries Lydia Jackson in 1835

Publishes a book, Nature, in 1836 which exhibits Transcendentalist overtones

Becomes popular lecturer at various New England lyceums

Publishes the well-received Essays in 1841

Edits Transcendentalist magazine The Dial from 1842-1844

Publishes Essays: Second Series in 1844

Publishes collected poems in 1846

1847-1848: Travels throughout Europe

Publishes Representative Men in 1849

Fervently supports the cause of abolition in the 1850s

Publishes Conduct of Life in 1860

Died of pneumonia in 1882
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~ All our Progress is an unfolding, like a vegtable bud.  You have first an instict, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.  Trust the instict to the end, though you can render no reason.
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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