Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson , 1803-1882: A Great 19th Century Writer and Philosopher SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I’m Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about the life of nineteenth century philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: The United States had won its independence from Britain just twenty- two years before Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. But it had yet to win its cultural independence. It still took its traditions from other countries, mostly from western Europe. What the American Revolution did for the nation's politics, Emerson did for its culture. When he began writing and speaking in the eighteen thirties, conservatives saw him as radical -- wild and dangerous. But to the young, he spoke words of self-dependence -- a new language of freedom. He was the first to bring them a truly American spirit. ..., ... http://sites.google.com/site/enriqueruizdiaz/ also: http://sites.google.com/site/mcenriqueruizdiaz/ Thank you for your visit