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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who lived from May 25, 1803 to April 27, 1882, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who directed the transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century.

As an advocate of individualism and a cautious critic of society's social balancing pressures, he has given over 1,500 public speeches in the United States to spread his ideas.

Emerson gradually distanced himself from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries and formulated and expressed the philosophy of transcendentalism in his essay Nature from 1836.

Upon completion of this work, he gave a speech entitled "American Scholar" in 1837, which was considered by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to be a declaration of the intellectual independence of the United States. He is still the key to the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers, and poets who followed him.

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