Ralph Waldo Emerson, now beginning to be…

1850 CE

Ralph Waldo Emerson, now beginning to be known as the “sage of Concord”, publishes Representative Men in 1850.

The first essay discusses the role played by "great men" in society, and the remaining six each extol the virtues of one of six men deemed by Emerson to be great:

    Plato ("the Philosopher")
    Emanuel Swedenborg ("the Mystic")
    Michel de Montaigne ("the Skeptic")
    William Shakespeare ("the Poet")
    Napoleon ("the Man of the World")
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("the Writer")

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Concord Middlesex Massachusetts United States View →

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Literature: 1828 to 1972 View →

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