Emerson: Biography

Educated at Harvard

Trained in Unitarian Universalist Ministry

Visited Europe where he met Coleridge, Carlyle, and Wordsworth

1835: Founder of Transcendentalism, Concord, Mass. (with Fuller, Thoreau, Hawthorne, etc.)

Important Publications:

• Nature, 1836
• American Scholar, 1837
• Essays ("Self-Reliance") 1841, 1844