On July 4, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) delivered an invited poem at the inauguration of the Battle Monument at Concord, Massachusetts — fifty-one years after the Fourth of July issuing of ...

In 1863’s “Boston Hymn,” Emerson connected the fight against slavery to the virtuous founding ideals of his home city, and of America as a whole. Narrated by God, the poem characterizes ...

I'd like to share Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," a poem he wrote to commemorate the completion of the battle monument, to honor the fallen heroes at the battles of Lexington and Concord in ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated poets and philosophers, was born to a Boston Brahmin family on May 25, 1803, just 28 years after the clashes in Lexington and Concord. His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson first used that memorable phrase to describe the event in his poem “Concord Hymn.” The Revolutionary War “shot,” which turns 250 this year, also marked the start of ...

Examiner Ralph Waldo Emerson, by the numbers Let’s give literary thanks to the author of “Self-Reliance,” born May 25, 1803, and buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker. Dubbed the "Sage of Concord," Emerson discussed his views on individualism and the divine ...