Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century
Emerson c. 1857
Engraved drawing, 1878
Daguerreotype of Lidian Jackson Emerson and her son Edward Waldo Emerson, c. 1850
Emerson in 1859
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundi
Ralph Waldo Emerson
…taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well-known as a mentor and close friend of his fellow transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, to Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. He was…
Thoreau in 1856
Thoreau's birthplace, the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse in Concord, Massachusetts
Original title page of Walden, with an illustration from a drawing by Thoreau's sister Sophia
Reconstruction of the interior of Thoreau's cabin