{"id":18582,"date":"2023-05-19T14:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18582"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:53:41","slug":"ralph-waldo-emerson-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/ralph-waldo-emerson-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Ralph Waldo Emerson (American, 1803-1882)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Emerson is best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement in the US during the 1820s and 1830s. As described in Emerson\u2019s essay \u201cNature,\u201d Transcendentalism focused on the belief that the divine was suffused throughout the natural world and that the study of nature could therefore reveal the nature of God. In espousing these beliefs, Emerson and his contemporaries broke from the more accepted notion of God as separate from the natural world. In addition to being a philosopher and essayist, Emerson was also an accomplished poet whose style was deeply influential on poets, especially Walt Whitman. Despite the controversial nature of some of his views, especially when it came to his staunch abolitionism and religious philosophy, Emerson was effectively the leader of intellectualism in the US during his lifetime and is largely considered the most influential American author of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"870\" data-id=\"17658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5-900x870.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5-900x870.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5-310x300.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5-768x742.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5-1536x1485.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5-650x628.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1996.5.5.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson (American, 1803-1882) Emerson is best remembered for leading the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18582\/revisions\/19212"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}