Early Life
Where was Emerson Born?
Boston Massachusetts
What was his most famous works
Self-Reliance
What was Emerson ideology?
Transcendentalism
What is Self-Reliance about?
Where did Emerson Travel to after his first wife died?
Europe
How who was his first wife and how did she die?
Ellie Tucker, tuberculosis
What was his first published essay?
Nature
T or F in Transcendentalism God is found through an outside source.
False
Self-Reliance makes people what in Emersons opinion?
Geniuses
Who was 1 person he influenced?
Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman
What did Emerson name his son?
Waldo
How many volumes of Essays did he have?
2
According to Emerson where do people discover themselves?
Nature
When was Self-Reliance written?
1841
How old was he when he went to Harvard?
14 years old
What was the main reason he left the ministry?
He did not agree with communion
Why did he start writing less?
He was starting to loose his memory
What is microcosm?
everything we do or every little thing that happens untimely connect with the universe.
What were 2 themes in Self-Reliance?
Transcendentalism, Genius vs. Conformity, nature, or Individualism
How old was his son when he died?
5
Who was the man that influenced him in Europe to take on Transcendentalist ideas?
Thomas Carlyle
What date were his second essays published?
1844
What is one semi present day person his ideology affected?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Envy is___, Imitation is____.
ignorance and Suicide
Who was Emersons most recent wife?
Lidian Jackson.