Ralph Waldo Emerson's Accomplishments

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson has had many accomplishments in his life. To start out he helped his brother William at a school for young women, which was established in their mother’s house. His first wife's name was Ellen Louisa Tucker. They met in Concord, New Hampshire on Christmas day in 1827. Ellen married Emerson when she was 18 years old. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Biography.com) Emerson was invited to serve as a junior pastor and was called on January 11, 1829. Ralph Waldo Emerson was chaplain to the Massachusetts legislature and a member of the Boston School Committee. Emerson would later serve as an unofficial literary agent in the United States of America for Carlyle. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetryfoundation.com) Something
His writing and the American transcendental movement helped other authors to be able to start their writing careers. Some of these authors included Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. They all used his writings to help guide them to be able to write books and different pieces of writing that are now very popular. (Other Writers Influenced by Emerson, rmitchell06.tripod.com)
Ralph Waldo Emerson had many great impacts on the world. He has inspired many and he has also helped a lot of people be able to do the things that they needed to do. Without Ralph Waldo Emerson, the idea of the American Transcendentalism Movement would not have been started and would not have gone so far in history. This was helpful to people in the english and writing part of the world to be able to form all of their thoughts and opinions into one big movement called the American Transcendentalist