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Ralph Waldo Emerson  

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson—philosopher, essayist, and poet—was the leading figure in American transcendentalism. He set the intellectual tone of New England letters in his own time and represents the beginning of an authentically American voice in literature and thought. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

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