A Nation's Strength by Emerson Part-I

A Nation’s Strength

About the poet :
 Ralph Waldo Emerson (25^th May, 1803 – 27^th April, 1882)  born in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was an American Transcendentalist and poet.
Transcendentalism is a reaction against scientific rationalism.
‘The Dial’  - it is the journal which spread the cause of Transcedentalism and Emerson was the Editor of this journal.
Emerson was a contemporary of Walt Whitman
His transcendentalist philosophy is evident in his essay ‘Nature’ ( 1836)
‘Nature’ –It  is Emerson’s first book
He is well known for his speech ‘The American Scholar’ which was given in 1837. It was also known as ‘Phi Beta Kappa’ address.
‘The American Scholar is considered as America’s Intellectual Declaration of Independence’
Emerson met William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas Carlyle.
‘Self-Reliance’, ‘The over Soul’, The poet, ‘The experience’ are his famous essay from his essays first and second series published in 1841-44.
Emerson's other volumes include Poems (1847), Representative Men, The Conduct of Life (1860), and English Traits (1865). Society and Solitude (1870

He died of pneumonia in 1882.

Emerson was known in the local literary circle as "The Sage of Concord,"