Ralph Waldo Emerson (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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The son of a Unitarian minister, Emerson embarked on a clerical career of his own until a crisis of faith drove him to a different vocation. After he graduated from Harvard College in 1821, he was ordained a Unitarian minister at a Boston church in 1829, but he resigned from the ministry in 1832. In his subsequent career as a poet, essayist, and lecturer, he became the most influential spokesman of New England Transcendentalism—a school of philosophy kindred in content to Continental Romanticism.
Perhaps the best-known of Emerson’s writings is his...
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