'''Ralph Waldo Emerson''' (Boston 1803-1882) was a poet and essayist associated strongly with [[Romanticism]] and one of the founders of [[Transcendentalism]]. These movements were reactions to the industrialization of the society at the turn of the 18th century, and reactions especially against the world's increasing complexity. Emerson, along with other [[transcendentalism|trancendentalist]] poets, believed that a respect for or a return to the simplicity of the beauty of nature was required to preserve human uniqueness. Emerson graduated from Harvard University at the age of 18.
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'''Ralph Waldo Emerson''' (Boston 1803-1882) was a poet and essayist associated strongly with [[Romanticism]] and one of the founders of [[Transcendentalism]]. These movements were reactions to the industrialization of the society at the turn of the 19th century, and reactions especially against the world's increasing complexity. Emerson, along with other [[transcendentalism|trancendentalist]] poets, believed that a respect for or a return to the simplicity of the beauty of nature was required to preserve human uniqueness. Emerson graduated from Harvard University at the age of 18.