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Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in "Essays: First Series" (1841) and eight in "Essays: Second Series" (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication. | Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Essays. Ralph Waldo Emerson. pi Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at http Ralph Waldo Emerson. Essays. About the author Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25 1803-April 27 1882 was a famous American essayist and one of America s most influential thinkers and writers. Emerson was born in Boston Massachusetts to a Unitarian minister and would later become a Unitarian minister himself. Emerson eventually however broke away from the doctrine of his superiors and formulated and expressed the philosophy ofTranscendentalism in his 1836 essay Nature. In 1810 when Emerson was eightyears old his father died. His father complained that Emerson couldn t read well enough when he was 3 years old. In October of 1817 at the age of 14 Emerson went to Harvard University and was appointed President s Freshman a position which gave him a room free of charge. He waited at Commons which reduced the cost of his board to one quarter and he received a scholarship. He added to his slender means by tutoring and by teaching during the winter vacations at his Uncle Ripley s school in Waltham Massachusetts. Contents After Emerson graduated from Harvard he assisted his brother in a school for young ladies established in their mother s house when his brother went to Gottingen to study divinity Emerson took charge of the school. Over the next several years Emerson made his living as a I Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD at http died in February of 1831. In 1832-33 Emerson toured Europe a trip that he would later write about in English Traits 1856 . During this trip he met Wordsworth Coleridge John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. Emerson maintained a correspondence with Carlyle until Carlyle s death in 1881. In 1835 Emerson bought a house on the Cambridge Turnpike in Concord Massachusetts. He quickly became one of the leading citizens in the town. In 1836 Emerson and other .